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"Legitimacy" (Weber's three pure types) includes:Read the answer and worked solution →

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"Legitimacy" (Weber's three pure types) includes:

  1. economic, social, military
  2. inherited, divine, military
  3. religious, ethnic, racial
  4. traditional, charismatic, rational-legal
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Correct answer: D. traditional, charismatic, rational-legal

1. Weber's typology of legitimate domination. 2. Traditional: long-established custom (monarchy). 3. Charismatic: personal magnetism (revolutionary leaders). 4. Rational-legal: rules and offices (modern bureaucracy). __Source: syllabus Political Theory — political authority__

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