"coercive apparatus" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is usually used to refer to systems or elements of society that are used to force people to obey certain rules or to maintain the status quo. For example, "The repressive government used its coercive apparatus to enforce its authoritarian rule."
It uses the full force of a state's coercive apparatus to unjustly target its own citizens.
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Rather than suggest, however, that low-skill men would be more inclined to favor formal employment were formal employment rendered more attractive through, e.g., higher pay or more dignified working conditions, Mead suggests -- really -- that we deploy the coercive apparatus of the criminal justice system in order to mold such men into a more readily pliant worker class.
Honor cultures are particularly likely to develop where resources are liable to theft, and where the state's coercive apparatus cannot be relied upon to prevent or punish thievery.
Nozick (1974, p.ix) has (along with other libertarians) claimed that it does, objecting, "The state may not use its coercive apparatus for the purpose of getting some citizens to aid others".
Consider a minimal state that comes into existence when some aggressive individuals seize control of a powerful coercive apparatus that has been built up through many years of murder and plunder but then immediately undergo conversion into conscientious libertarians.
Manton depicts an uneasy retreat from historical and ideal visions of the healthy post-colonial city and the public good, as the sanitary functions of environmental health workers are displaced amid urban politics and the elaboration of a coercive rent-seeking apparatus of 'inspection'inspection
The state apparatus is weakened by its diminishing coercive power.
"The Islamic Republic is nothing but an economic-religious-military complex that applies its coercive power not through political institutions but through a military and security apparatus under the direct supervision of Ayatollah Khamenei," said Mehdi Khalaji of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy at a congressional hearing last week.
With the physical apparatus of the draft out of reach, rioters targeted other symbols of authority associated with coercive government power.
