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Rational-legal authority
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Rational-legal authority (also known as rational authority, legal authority, rational domination, legal domination, or bureaucratic 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. The majority of the modern states of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries are rational-legal authorities, according to those who use this form of classification.
Scholars such as Max Weber and Charles Perrow characterized the rational-legal bureaucracy as the most efficient form of administration.[1][2] Critics challenge that rational-legal authority is as rational and unbiased as presented, as well as challenge that it is effective.[3]
- ^ Gerth, H. H.; Mills, C. Wright (1948). Bureaucracy. pp. 208–256. doi:10.4324/9780203759240-13. ISBN 9780203759240.
{{cite book}}:|website=ignored (help) - ^ Perrow, Charles. Complex Organizations.
- ^ Dargent Bocanegra, Eduardo; Lotta, Gabriela (2025). "Expert Knowledge in Democracies: Promises, Limits, and Conflict". Annual Review of Political Science. doi:10.1146/annurev-polisci-033123-020420. ISSN 1094-2939.
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