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Write short note: Authority and Legitimacy.

  • UPSC 2004
  • Politics and Society

Authority is the recognised right to command; legitimacy is the quality that makes such a right acceptable. The two are joined by definition: authority is power plus legitimacy. Max Weber called authority legitime Herrschaft, legitimate domination, in Economy and Society (1922).

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