{"id":1166,"date":"2011-03-10T22:13:34","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T20:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ayo2006.com\/?p=1166"},"modified":"2011-03-10T22:13:34","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T20:13:34","slug":"authority-and-legitimacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayo2006.com\/?p=1166","title":{"rendered":"AUTHORITY AND LEGITIMACY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Authority and legitimacy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Authority, in a political sense, is different from political power in that it implies legitimacy and acceptance; it implies that the person or state exercising power has a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">perceived right to do so<\/span>. Legitimacy is an attribute of government gained through the acquisition and application of power in accordance with recognized or accepted standards or principles.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Three sources of legitimacy for authority, known as the tripartite classification of authority.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">three reasons why people follow the orders of those who give them:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Traditional authority<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Traditional authorities receive loyalty because they continue and support the preservation of existing values, the status quo, called &#8220;the authority of the eternal yesterday&#8221;.Patriarchal (and more rarely matriarchal) societies gave rise to hereditary monarchies where authority was given to descendants of previous leaders. Followers submit to this authority because &#8220;we&#8217;ve always done it that way.&#8221; Examples of traditional authoritarians include absolute monarchs.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Charismatic authority<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Charismatic authority grows out of the personal charm or the strength of an individual personality . Charismatic regimes are often short-lived, seldom outliving the charismatic figure that leads them. For a charismatic regime to survive the rule of the individual personality, it must transform its legitimacy into a different form of authority.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Legal-rational authority<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Legal-rational authorities receive their ability to compel behavior by <em>virtue of the office <\/em>that they hold. It is the authority that demands obedience to the office rather than the office holder; Weber identified &#8220;rationally-created rules&#8221; as the central feature of this form of authority. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Modern democracies <\/span>are examples of legal-rational regimes. People also abide by legal-rational authority because it makes sense to do so for their own good, as well as for the greater good of society.<\/p>\n<p>These three forms of authority are said to appear in a &#8220;hierarchical development order&#8221;; states progress from charismatic authority, to traditional authority, and finally reach the state of rational-legal authority which is characteristic of a modern liberal democracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Authority and legitimacy Authority, in a political sense, is different from political power in that it implies legitimacy and acceptance; it implies that the person or state exercising power has a perceived right to do so. Legitimacy is an attribute of government gained through the acquisition and application of power in accordance with recognized or &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-41"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayo2006.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayo2006.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayo2006.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayo2006.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayo2006.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1166"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ayo2006.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1167,"href":"https:\/\/ayo2006.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1166\/revisions\/1167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayo2006.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayo2006.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayo2006.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}