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The concept of authority - an article on political theory

• Lead section: A scaffolding paragraph that summarizes the article (expand on current).

• History: Describe how the theory was developed (need more expanded section on ancient Roman understanding, Catholic (Thomistic) understanding, Genevan (incl. Rousseau's altered understanding of the role of authority in education in Emile), Thomas Hobbes, Carl Schmitt, United States (could quote Abraham Lincoln and refer back to his collection of speeches, one on page xxi, 47, and 48... also link to Limited Government), Hannah Arendt at least).

• Theory: A brief explanation of authority as it has been developed, using own words. Section headings can be created to address specific claims or elements of the model (e.g. Roman understanding, U.S. understanding, traditional authority, transitional authority exhibit Cambodia, public authority or popular power, bureaucratic managerial techniques).

• Reactions: How did people build on or argue against the theory? Summarize and attribute perspectives reflected in academic literature (e.g. recent titles in the American Journal of Political Science, or responses to Hannah Arendt's concept, debates about sovereignty, and debates about legitimacy).

• Impact: Authority is a key concept to be defined and understood in defining the range and role of political theory, science and inquiry (Laitain 1998). The impact of a thorough and grounded understanding of authority includes the basic foundation and formation of political, civil and/or ecclesiastical institutions or representatives.

Include:

Krause, George A. "Legislative Delegation of Authority to Bureaucratic Agencies." Jan 2011 "...the authority to choose whether or not to delegate authority to executive branch policy actors (“Federalist 51”). Because legislatures possess diffuse authority relative to popularly elected executives, this view of delegation seeks to ensure against tyranny by a singular (elected) executive. Furthermore, legislators are elected representatives who are comparatively closer to the will of the people than are executive branch agents, given legislators' reelection motives. With this said, however, legislators possess limited means to handle policymaking authority because..."

Widyono, Benny. "United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC)" 2015 Online publication date:Oct 2014

Glanville, Luke. "Sovereignty." 2016 Online publication date:Aug 2016 "...fixed definitions, sovereignty can be broadly and provisionally understood as a legitimated claim to political authority. Historically, this claim to sovereign political authority has been variously made by monarchs, governing assemblies, peoples, and, in a more abstract sense, states. Such claims tend to have both an internal and an external aspect. The sovereign is the supreme authority within a political community and it is independent from authorities beyond the community. Claims to sovereignty, in turn, tend to involve claims to particular rights..."

See also:

- Arendt, Hannah. "Authority in the Twentieth Century." Review of Politics, 1956, Vol.18, No. 4, pp. 403-417.

- Arendt, Hannah. On Violence. New York: Harcourt Brace & World, 1970.

- Friedrich, Carl Joachim (edited for the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy). Authority. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1958.

- Friedrich, Carl Joachim. Tradition and Authority. London : Macmillan, 1972.

- Friedrich, Carl Joachim. An Introduction to Political Theory: Twelve Lectures at Harvard. New York: Harper & Row, 1967.

- Goodin, Robert E. (ed). The Oxford Handbook of Political Science. 2011 ISBN: 9780199604456 Published online: Sep 2013 DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199604456.001.0001.

- Greenstein, Fred I. and Nelson W. Polsby. The Handbook of Political Science. Addison-Wesley Publishing Co., 1975.

- Laitin, David D. "Toward a Political Science Discipline: Authority Patterns Revisited." Comparative Political Studies 1998.

- Radford, Gail. The Rise of the Public Authority: Statebuilding and Economic Development in Twentieth-Century America. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2013. See also: Hayden, Patrick. Hannah Arendt: Key Concepts. Durham, NC: Acumen Publishing, 2014, particularly chapter 8.

(Could also expand on Arendt's work and, to a degree, Joachim's . . .)