authority

Examples of authority in the following topics:

• Authorization and Appropriation

  • Authorization acts establish, continue, or modify agencies or programs.
  • Authorization acts also authorize subsequent appropriations for specific agencies and programs, often setting spending ceilings for them.
  • Meanwhile, appropriations acts provide new budget authority for programs, activities, and agencies that have been authorized by authorization committees.
  • An unauthorized appropriation is a new budget authority for agencies or programs either without authorization or where the budget authority exceeds the authorized ceiling.
  • Other authorized programs receive no appropriated funds at all.

• Authority

  • Without authority, Britain's power had to be backed by force.
  • Legitimacy is vital to the notion of authority; legitimacy is the main means by which authority is distinguished from more general notions of power.
  • The first type discussed by Weber is rational-legal authority.
  • The second type of authority is traditional authority, which derives from long-established customs, habits, and social structures.
  • The third form of authority is charismatic authority.

• Rational-Legal Authority

  • Rational-legal authority is a form of leadership in which authority is largely tied to legal rationality, legal legitimacy, and bureaucracy.
  • Different forms of authority transfer power in different ways.
  • In traditional authority, power is usually passed on through a family line.
  • Unlike charismatic authority and traditional authority, rational-legal authority derives its powers from the system of bureaucracy and legality.
  • The prerequisites for the modern Western state are the monopoly by a central authority of the means of administration and control; the monopoly of legislative authority; and the organization of officialdom, dependent upon the central authority.

• Traditional Authority

  • Traditional authority refers to a form of leadership in which authority derives from tradition or custom.
  • For example, historically, kings derived their authority from tradition.
  • Traditional authority is a type of leadership in which the authority of a ruling regime is largely tied to tradition or custom.
  • In sociology, the concept of traditional authority comes from Max Weber's tripartite classification of authority.
  • In addition to traditional authority, Weber claimed that the other two styles of authority were charismatic authority and rational-legal authority.

• Power, Authority, and Violence

  • The first type discussed by Weber is Rational-legal authority.
  • Modern societies depend on legal-rational authority.
  • The second type of authority is Traditional authority, which derives from long-established customs, habits and social structures.
  • The third form of authority is Charismatic authority.
  • Charismatic authority is that authority which is derived from a gift of grace, the power of one's personality, or when the leader claims that his authority is derived from a "higher power" (e.g.

• Charismatic Authority

  • Charismatic authority is power legitimized by a leader's exceptional personal qualities, which inspire loyalty and obedience from followers.
  • Charismatic leaders gain authority not because they are necessarily kind, but because they are seen as superhuman.
  • Charismatic authority is one of three forms of authority laid out in Max Weber's tripartite classification of authority.
  • Charismatic authority almost always evolves in the context of boundaries set by traditional or rational-legal authority, but by its nature tends to challenge this authority, and is thus often seen as revolutionary.
  • Routinization is the process by which "charismatic authority is succeeded by a bureaucracy controlled by a rationally established authority or by a combination of traditional and bureaucratic authority. "

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