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Rational-Legal Authority

Max Weber on Rational-Legal Authority

Max Weber on Rational-Legal Authority

According to Weber, rational-legal authority is a form of leadership in which the authority of an organization or a ruling regime is largely tied to legal rationality, legal legitimacy, and bureaucracy.

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