Political Obligation [Hardcover]

How should we understand the relationship between citizens and governments, and what are the obligations of citizens? In this substantially revised new edition of an influential text, John Horton challenges dominant theories by offering an 'associative' account focusing particularly on what it is to be a member of a political community.Problems of Political Obligation.- Voluntarist Theories.- Teleological Theories.- Deontological Theories.- Anarchism: Political and Philosophical.- Associative Political Obligation and its Critics.- Elaborating the Associative Theory.- Conclusion.JOHN HORTON is Professor of Political Philosophy, Keele University, UK.

• A comprehensive introduction to theories of political obligation 
  
• Fully updated in this new edition to take account of recent work in the area 
  
• Provides the most developed account available of the associative theory of political obligation