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Distinguish between Power and Authority.

  • UPSC 2015
  • 15 marks
  • Concept of Power, Hegemony, Ideology and Legitimacy

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Ordinary speech fuses the two ("the powers of the President"); Roman law separated them: magistrates held potestas, the capacity to compel, while the Senate held auctoritas, counsel that carried weight without compulsion. For Max Weber, power is the probability of carrying out one's will even against resistance; authority is power whose exercise is accepted as…

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