So for Dworkin, we must interpret law as coherent, in the sense of speaking with one voice, because by so doing, we understand law as the voice of a community of principle, and so as capable of providing a general justification for the exercise of state coercion (see Dworkin 1986).
Is this a textbook example of coercion?
Despite the widespread and controversial use of coercion in psychiatry, little is known about the impact of coercion on outcome.
Participants stressed the need for understanding the use of coercion.
Self-determination to exercise is operationalised using the Locus of Causality for Exercise Scale; a reliable and valid three-item self-report measure of the extent to which participants feel they choose to exercise with no sense of coercion [ 52].
Governance, with an emphasis more on control than protection, has often been achieved by the exercise of authority using linear "coercion and enforcement" (Rosenau et al. 2004; Walker et al. 2010).
It seemed natural for the participants to talk about coercion in the broad sense, and several pointed to subtle forms of coercion, like exercising power or enacting pressure on the patient, what Sjöström [ 26] names 'coercion context' and 'power dynamics'.
We informed the participants that they could use a broad understanding of coercion (i.e. formal, informal and perceived coercion).
Nor could it overcome the intrinsic risk of coercion in holding prayer exercises in elementary and secondary schools -- whether during regular class hours or at after-school events.
When the proponent of public reason states that political or moral rules must be publicly justifiably to be legitimate, she does not exert power or coercion over anyone, she merely states a condition that any purportedly legitimate exercises of power or coercion must meet to be legitimate.
