Introduction to Political Science Weber Quiz 1

Weber described legitimate domination as “authority”

• True

• False

Weber defined bureaucracy as the “purest type of exercise of legal authority”

• True

• False

Weber believed that traditional authority was likely to serve as the basis for the development

of rationality, along the lines of the capitalist west.

• True

• False

Charismatic authority, for Weber, is not defined by the actual powers and qualities of a

leader, but rather the ways in which followers define a charismatic leader, and treat him as

someone with exceptional powers and qualities.

• True

• False

Weber believed that traditional authority and charisma were both inherently conservative.

• True

• False

Weber was interested in the ways in which traditional authority preserve structure of

authority, and the ways in which charismatic authority changes the minds of actors.

• True

• False

Weber believed that the staff of a charismatic leader were “greatly superior” to the staff of a

legal-rational leader because they were not constrained/limited by bureaucracy.

• True

• False

Weber believed that charismatic systems can easily survive / outlast the death of the leader.

• True

• False

Which one of the following statements is NOT true. The three systems of authority identified

by Weber:

• Are mutually exclusive.

• Can co-exist and support one another.

• Can co-exist, but in conflict with one another.

• Are all types of legitimate domination.

Which TWO of these are not identified as bases for legitimate authority by Weber:

• Rational (or legal-rational)

• Authoritarian power

• Charismatic

• Economic (or output based)

• Traditional