PO102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Non-Interventionism, Heredity
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Involves granting of rights and responsibilities to particular individuals and groups so they can make the community function . Authority is the right to exercise power that is accepted by the governed (the people) as legitimate. A person receives power and legitimacy because of the institution she/he represents: ex. Traditional: prevalent in pre-industrial societies, power is vested in a particular person due to heredity or custom. Rational-legal authority: grounded in personal qualities, impersonal, derived from a position in an institution, based on rule of law or through a fair process, legitimacy linked to the leader"s performance. Legitimacy can be weakened by poor performance and. How do we explain rob ford"s popularity? corrupt behaviour. Form of political organization: we are not always politically organized by states. Governing institutions have the ability to make rules. The rules are binding on the population that resides in a given territory.
