3 Types of Legitimate Power

Question 1

3 Types of Legitimate Power

Answer 1

1. Legal-Rational
2. Traditional
3. Charismatic

Question 2

Power holders claim obedience on the grounds that their dictates and orders fall within the province of their office.

• Type of power
• key word

Answer 2

• Legal-Rational

- office

Question 3

Obedience is owed to a set of impersonal principles (the position) contained within the law, rather than the person.

• Type of power
• key words (2)
• example

Answer 3

• Legal-Rational
• principles, law
• Western democracies

Question 4

“a government of laws, not of people”

-Type of power

Answer 4

• Legal-Rational

Question 5

Power holders look to the sanctity of custom to legitimate their exercise of power.

• Type of power
• key word

Answer 5

• Traditional

- custom

Question 6

often ruler’s right to be obeyed derives from an “eternal”, inviolable, and sacred tradition.

• Type of power
• key word
• example

Answer 6

• Traditional
• Tradition
• Medieval kings ruled in name of “divine right”

Question 7

Power rests on the extraordinary, superhuman, or supernatural qualities that followers attribute to their leaders.

• Type of power
• key words
• examples (2)

Answer 7

• Charismatic
• qualities that followers attribute to their leaders
• religious prophets, revolutionary leaders