PO102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Crossing Guard, Heredity
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2 positions/views: highly concentrated, widely dispersed : vote is equal and is spread across everybody. Involves getting granting of rights and responsibilities to particular individuals and groups so they can make the community function. Authority is vested in the uniform (ie. , police,crossing guard) is the right to exercise power that is accepted by the governed (the people) as. A person receives power and legitimacy because of the institution she/he represents. Ex: police, judge, member of parliament - granted by society: legitimacy: If the police has no gun, computer and etc,. there is little legitimacy. In real life we can have combinations sometimes. Power was vested in a particular person due to heredity or custom (queen) 2. charismatic (hitler) grounded in exceptional personal qualities - supernatural , the divine promise of massive change; revolutionary this form of authority is boosted by crises or unrest. Inpersonal, derives rom a position in an institution.
