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SECTION I
Q. No. 1: Answer in not more than Two sentences
EACH QUESTION CARRY 2 MARKS · (20 Marks - 2 marks each)
1.Name two instruments of Authority.[2]
Answer
The instruments of authority are the means through which authority is actually exercised and made effective.
Two instruments:
- Law, including the constitution, statutes, delegated legislation, executive orders and judicial decisions. Law is the primary instrument because it both confers authority on an office and defines its limits, so that a command within the rule is binding and one outside it is void.
- The administrative machinery, that is bureaucracy, through which commands are transmitted and carried out. Weber treated a rule-bound, hierarchical, merit-recruited bureaucracy as the characteristic instrument of legal-rational authority, and regarded it as technically superior to every other form of administration.
Other instruments that would answer equally: force and sanctions, held in reserve for those who do not comply voluntarily; persuasion and propaganda, including official information and appeals to civic duty; rewards and inducements, such as subsidies, licences and honours; and custom, ceremony and symbols, which sustain traditional authority.
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