Abstract
It has been argued in the preceding chapters that both voluntarist and teleological theories have considerable difficulty in providing convincing accounts of political obligation. Voluntarist theories, though superficially attractive, present a picture of political relations which largely misrepresents people’s actual experience of political life: teleological theories are either unable to tie political obligation to a particular polity or resort to unconvincing conceptions of the common good. Voluntarist and teleological theories both fail to capture distinctive features of political obligation. However, there is one further type of account which attempts to avoid the failings of the other two theories. This type of account seeks to explain political obligation in terms of the idea of duty and therefore may be called ‘deontological’.
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