their excesses. * Feelings of popular legitimacy are another foundation for a successful political system. A political system and a government with high legitimacy are typically more effective in carrying out policies and are more likely to overcome hardships and reversals. * In a traditional society‚ legitimacy may depend on the ruler’s inheriting the throne or on the ruler’s commitment to religious customs. * In a modern democracy‚ the legitimacy of the
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What is Leadership? The CEO’s Role in Large Complex Organizations Michael E. Porter & Nitin Nohria Article: June 2008 Focus: What is the role of the CEO in a large‚ complex enterprise? What makes a CEO effective? According to Porter and Nohria (2008)‚ a CEO is the epitome of leadership‚ who exercises ultimate power‚ and is responsible for making the most critical choices facing an organization. However‚ even though the CEO is powerful‚ multiple constituencies can exercise power as well‚ i.e. the
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MAX WEBER I. INTRODUCTION A) Biography Birth name: Karl Emil Maximilian Weber Birth date: April 21 1864 (Erfurt‚ Germany) Parents: Max Weber Sr. and Helene Fallenstein Death: June 14‚ 1920 (Munich‚ Germany) Spouse: Marianne Schnitger (feminist and author) * Studied in the universities of Heidelberg and Berlin and was trained in law. * He taught in various universities in Germany until 1897 when he suffered a nervous breakdown due to his father’s death. His illness forced him to
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threaten 6. Legitimate Power :authority is voluntarily accepted by those who are affected ex- priest president 7. Traditional‚- power that has legitimacy because of compliance with well establish culture practices 8. Rational-legal‚ - power that has legitimacy because it is based on establishing laws‚ roles‚ and procedures 9. Charismatic- power whose legitimacy is derived from the extraordinary personal characteristic of an individual leader which inspires loyalty and devotion 10. Illegitimate power
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Elements of Government The third basic element is legitimacy‚ “the acceptance by the people of the government’s authority to exercise power” (282). Without this such acceptance‚ no government or political party can subsist. Socialization plays its part in the legitimacy of a government. Socialization is defined as a “learning process in which the people come to accept the standards of their society” (282)‚ meaning to convert or adapt to the needs of society. There are many ways to endorse socialization
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reports are utilized as a part of court cases. A few courts permit more liberal utilization of the CPGs and others to require more examination with regards to the logical legitimacy of the CPG before it is conceded. Nonetheless‚ the court cases managing CPG utilization have proposed that if the rules are of some logical legitimacy‚ that they might be utilized as "scholarly treatises". CPGs might be utilized to loan trustworthiness to a specialist observer‚ to reprimand a specialist observer‚ to safeguard
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By not producing results that correlate with the outcome‚ plea bargaining weakens the validity of the criminal justice system. Validity or legitimacy is a very important characteristic of the legal system’s effectiveness. The view of the legal system is determined considerably on whether or not the system operates in harmony with basic rules of procedural fairness‚ for example treating cases
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AUTHORITY – Authority is that power which is exercised legitimately. All powers cannot be legitimate. Authority and legitimacy both depend on values‚ beliefs and attitude of the masses. Example of Authority: A robber who forces bank manager to handover cash on a gunpoint is not exercising “authority”. But when a police officer is controlling traffic and can use the threat of a fine or jail sentence‚ he is exercising authority. It is an investment in a legitimate form of power‚ it is profitable
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discovered in the Masoretic Text‚ it is clear that the Dead Sea Scrolls adds to the legitimacy that the Old Testament of the Bible is the Word Of God. “Until the year 1947‚ the earliest manuscripts we possessed dated back to only around the tenth century A.D. These manuscripts composed what is known as the Masoretic Text…” (Tarpley) Before the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls‚ biblical scholars doubted the legitimacy of the Scriptures because there was not enough evidence to prove that the contents
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question for this essay‚ so legitimacy appears to be the key word‚ and its definition is‚ “able to be defended with logic or justification” (Oxford dictionaries online). In a democracy the Government is voted in by the people‚ and it could be argued this process makes it legitimate. But not all states in the world are democratic‚ so can they be seen to be a legitimate governing body‚ with the authority to rule the people of that territory? This essay will examine the legitimacy of the states power and
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