Hi I am Prof. S. Madhan Kumar. In this video, I will be explaining Max Weber's Authority

The meaning of authority is the power to give orders or make decisions: the power or right to direct or control someone or something.

Max Weber distinguished three ideal types of legitimate political leadership, domination, and authority. He wrote about these three types of domination in both his essay The Three Types of Legitimate Rule which was published in his masterwork Economy and Society, and in his classic speech "Politics as a Vocation"

1. Charismatic Authority (character, heroism, leadership, religious),
2. Traditional authority (patriarchs, patrimonialism, feudalism) &
3. Legal authority (modern law and state, bureaucracy).

These three types are ideal types and rarely appear in their pure form.

According to Weber, authority is power accepted as legitimate by those subjected to it. These three forms of authority are said to appear in a "hierarchical development order". States progress from charismatic authority to traditional authority and finally reach the state of rational-legal authority which is characteristic of modern liberal democracy.

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