Some elites depend on legitimacy conferred by rules that are agreed on by both leaders and followers. Weber refers to this type of legitimacy as

a. rational-legal authority.
b. institutional authority.
c. imaginary authority.
d. charismatic authority.


a. rational-legal authority.

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