The phrase "coercive institutions" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in discussions about organizations or systems that exert force or pressure on individuals or groups.
Example: "The study examined the role of coercive institutions in shaping social behavior and compliance."
Alternatives: "oppressive organizations" or "compelling entities."
For social life, the key characterisitcs include social division by class, gender, and ethnicity; coercive institutions including law courts, police, and armies; and (sometimes) cities.
For today's enemies of democracy, it is the coercive institutions of the state that play the key role, not private armies of thugs.
Their views, based upon the idea of human progress and perfectibility, led to the conclusion that once perfected, mankind would have no need of coercive institutions such as police, criminal law, property ownership, and the family.
Dr. Nugent's research explores political behavior in authoritarian contexts, religion and politics, and the origins of coercive institutions, combining a variety of survey, voting, archival, and interview evidence, and incorporating quantitative, qualitative, and experimental methodologies.
All that need be the case is that the basic principles that regulate the coercive institutions be ones that the reasonable members can agree to (Rawls 1996).
He does accept that we have moral obligations to prevent people from starving, being assaulted, or murdered, but these are obligations of a universal 'humanitarianism.' Justice, for Nagel, is a moral value that is necessarily indexed to coercive institutions, as coercive institutions are necessary for large-scale social coordination and cooperation.
All this would be accomplished, ideally, without the interference of the state, for Proudhon was an anarchist who regarded the state as an essentially coercive institution.
Throughout human history the law has been known as a coercive institution, enforcing its practical demands on its subjects by means of threats and violence.
In the Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea, the U.S. army's exploitation of ordinary colonial subjects breathed new life into often coercive colonial institutions, such as Chinese migrant contract labor, forced labor for public works such as roads, and the impressment of interpreters and guides and other intermediaries for military operations.
John Rawls' [32] view is that since global citizens cannot be supposed to see themselves as free and equal human beings who should relate fairly to each other, we cannot build coercive social institutions that assume they do.
(Cole 2000: 184) Second, Cole suggests that one of the chief reasons to insist upon democracy in the first place is presumably the belief that coercive political institutions could not permissibly be imposed unless those coerced are given an equal say in how the political arrangements are ordered.
