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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Characteristic



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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Charismatic



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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Traditional



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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Type of ruler



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bureaucratic officials





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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Having a dynamic
personality



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or routine



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authority





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and exceptional powers



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(hereditary) qualities



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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Virtue of rationally
established norms, decrees, and other rules and regulations





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community



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routine



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formal correctness of these rules and those who enact them are
considered a legitimized authority





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devotion



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allegiances



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Merton’s theory of deviance)





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(disciples)



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social conduct



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SEE ALSO






In traditional authority, the legitimacy of the , and legal-rational authority within party organizations.

In his view every historical relation between rulers and ruled contained elements that can be analyzed on the basis of the above distinction.