Compare and contrast Weber’s types of legitimate domination. Discuss specifically each type’s strengths and weaknesses. Be sure to provide contemporary concrete examples of each type.
What will be an ideal response?
"Legitimacy” - the publicly invoked reasons for obeying or complying with the commands issuing from an authority. It is to these reasons that authority figures turn when seeking to legitimate their actions as well as the actions of those subjected to their commands. Thus, the principles on which legitimacy rests are more the expression of a particular political ideology than the expression of individuals’ underlying motives for obeying authority.
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