Authority

AUTHORITY Authority is the power to enforce laws, exact obedience, command, determine or judge. Authority has been a subject of research in a variety of empirikal settings Types of authority Pesklional authority Referent authority Expert authority Coercive authority Revard authority family (parental authority) small poups CEO DIRECTOR MANAGER STAFF Intermediate organizations political authority Authority map Mest important questions Whether sational elections are free and fair The security ef vaters The iornce ef fereign pevs en povemment The capability ef the chil sevants ta inplement pelkies Number of countries 53 55 33 26 Fall democracles: 9-10 O 8-8.99 Flawed democracies: 7-199 % of verld population 6-6.99 Hybrid regimes: 12,3% 5-5.99 4-4.99 36,5% Authoritarian regimes: 37,2% O 35.99 2-2.99 14,0% 1-1.99 Obediency studies The Milgram experiment showed just how far people would go, when ordered to hurt somebody else by an authority figure and how obedient people would be when a doctor told them to do something that was The Stanford Prison Experiment (1971). Young men were divided into the roles of Prisoner and Guard and put in a prison-like environment. he brutality of the Guards and the suffering of the The Hofling hospital experiment involved nurses being told to administer a dangerous dose of a drug to a patient. They knew exactly how toxic the dose would be, yet 21 of the 22 would still have performed the injection. Prisoners was so intense that it had to obviously horrific and possibly fatal. be terminated after only six days.