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Also, vote buying and coercion are facilitated, because whole ballots are shown (see q15), bearing vote patterns, potentially deliberately identifying marks and write-ins, thereby allowing checking by vote buyers and coercers.

David Dill: Election Vaporware 2008

As well as providing criminal and misdemeanor penalties, CAPA also makes it possible for women to sue coercers in civil court.

Three Comments About Michigan’s “Coercive Abortion Prevention Act” 2006

Feinberg goes on to give a detailed discussion of how one might compare the pressures involved when coercers issue various sorts of demands coupled with various sorts of threats, suggesting ways of calculating the

Coercion Anderson, Scott 2006

That is, it leaves the standard sorts of means (force, violence, perhaps even economic deprivation) that coercers use out of the account, and instead treats all kinds of alterations to the coercee's costs and benefits to acting as possible indications of coercion.

Coercion Anderson, Scott 2006

(By comparison, in cases of bad luck and natural disaster, the situation is simpler because the behavior of the weather, unlike the behavior of coercers, is unaffected by the incentives facing those who might be pressured into acting under its power.)

Coercion Anderson, Scott 2006

The key to the explanation for the freedom-undermining force of coercion is that, as a general rule, coercers don't merely produce, but also track, the compliance of their victims.

Coercion Anderson, Scott 2006

On one face, it picks out a technique agents (coercers) can use to get other agents to do or not do something.

Coercion Anderson, Scott 2006

Moreover, coercers frequently need to craft and adapt their threats to the specific vulnerabilities of the coercee.

Coercion Anderson, Scott 2006

Or, we might move away from focusing on the coercee's will as the locus of coercion, and instead look at the powers, intentions, and activities of coercers.

Coercion Anderson, Scott 2006

Disdainful of the informality of their shadowbrethren, they were ranged in elegant ranks according to their guilds: the violet and gold farsensors, the blue coercers, the ruby and silver combatant redactors, creators armored in beryl tints, and glowing rose-gold psychokinetics.

The Golden Torc May, Julian, 1931- 1981