PO102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Heredity
23 Nov 2017
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The right to exercise power that is accepted by the governed (the people) and is legitimate. Involves granting of rights and responsibilities to particular individuals and groups so they can make the community function. We don"t necessarily want to give people authority. We do it because we have accepted that in order to make things function someone has to make the rules and enforce them. 3 types/sources of authority: (in real life there can be combinations) Power was vested in a particular person due to heredity or custom. Grounded in exceptional personal qualities - supernatural and divine . This form of authority is boosted by crisis or unrest legal-regional authority impersonal, derived from a position in an institution. Based on the rule of law; or through a fair and socially acceptable process. Limited since officials expected to follow laws and procedures. When it is at play: legitimacy is based on whether person upholds the rules and procedures of the institutions.
