Authority
- Created by: QueenAelin
- Created on: 18-09-18 01:18
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- Authority
- The right to exercise power
- Not power itself
- Usually granted by another individual or group
- Pure democracies find authority in their people
- A government rules because they won an election
- Traditional authority
- The right to govern exists because authority has existed over a long period of time
- Sheikhdoms in the Middle East
- Charismatic authority
- An individual has the ability to inspire and persuade through the force of their personality
- Authority is granted by acclaim
- People wish to be governed by a particular leader
- J.F. Kennedy
- Winston Churchill
- Legal-rational authority
- Refers to any rational way of gaining authority
- Always by election in democracies
- Elective authority
- The right to exercise power
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