The Nature of Power and Authority in Your Period

What this note covers

1. Separate power, authority and legitimacy
2. Institutions: where decisions became valid
3. Coercion and the army: the enforcement base
4. Representing and legitimising rule
5. Elites and delegation: partnership with a threat inside it
6. Resistance, negotiation and the limits of rule
7. Write power as a changing system

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