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How does Max Weber’s ‘theory of authority’ shape bureaucracy? Analyse.

  • UPSC 2026
  • Politics and Society

For Max Weber (Economy and Society, 1922), every durable domination (Herrschaft) needs a minimum of voluntary obedience, and that obedience rests on a belief in legitimacy. He argued that the kind of legitimacy claimed decides the type of obedience, the kind of administrative staff and the mode of exercising command. Bureaucracy is therefore not a…

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  • Authority types and the staff each produces
  • How legal-rational authority shapes bureaucracy
  • Transitions between types
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