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Types of authority

• Authority in politics generally refers to the ability to make laws or rules
• Authoritarianism describes a form of social control characterized by strict obedience to the authority of a state or organization
• Authoritarian personality describes individuals who seek to dominate those within their sphere of influence
• Authority (management) refers to the five recognized types of management authorities:
  • coercive authority
  • expert authority
  • formal authority, also known as legitimate authority
  • referent authority
  • reward authority
• Church authority, the authority (assumed or perceived) that a church has to decide what is orthodox and what is heresy
• Public Authority, a public benefit corporation chartered by a state government; most public authorities operate as for-profit corporations, with the ability to issue municipal bonds
  • New York State public benefit corporations
• In criticism of texts, the authority of a document means its reliability as a witness to the author's intentions.
• In scientific classification of living organisms, the Authority for a taxon is the name of the author who first published a valid description of it. Slightly different systems for specifying the authority are used in different branches of biology
  • author citation (botany)
  • author citation (zoology)

Authority- is a very talented rocknroll band out of Columbia, S.C. This power rock trio has its roots in rock, funk, hardcore, and a dash of hip hop. ... Bold text:This article applies to political ideologies. ... The concept of authoritarian personality denotes a number of qualities, which according to the theories of Theodor Adorno predict ones potential for fascist and antidemocratic leanings and behaviors. ... In management authority is formal (or legitimate) authority specified in a charter gives a project manager the authority to act in the name of the sponsoring executive or on behalf on the organization. ... Church authority means that the Church decrees rites and ceremonies. ... A Public Authority is a public corporation, chartered by a State. ... New York State public benefit corporations and authorities operate like quasi-private corporations, generally with boards appointed by elected officials. ... Textual criticism or lower criticism is a branch of philology or bibliography that is concerned with the identification and removal of errors from texts. ... Scribe Writing Writing, in its most common sense, is the preservation and the preserved text on a medium, with the use of signs or symbols. ... There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... An author is the person who creates a written work, such as a book, story, article or the like. ... Scientific classification or biological classification is a method by which biologists group and categorize species of organisms. ... A taxon (plural taxa), or taxonomic unit, is a grouping of organisms (named or unnamed). ... In botanical nomenclature, author citation refers to the person (or team) who valid published the name, i. ... In zoological nomenclature, author citation refers to the person (or team) who first makes a scientific name of a taxon available. ...

Other uses of the word

• Appeal to authority, a type of logical argument which is one method of obtaining propositional knowledge and is often a logical fallacy
• Authority control in library and information science (the practice of creating and maintaining headings for bibliographic material in a catalog)
• Police authority, in the United Kingdom, a body charged with securing an efficient and effective British police force for its area

An appeal to authority or argument by authority is a type of argument in logic, consisting on basing the truth value of an otherwise unsupported assertion on the authority, knowledge or position of the person asserting it. ... Authority control is a term used in library and information science to describe the practice of ensuring that any term used as a catalogue entry is correlated with all other forms of that term. ... Police authority - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ...

In fiction

• The Authority, a Wildstorm superhero comic book series
• The Authority (RPG), a role-playing game set in superhero comic book universe of the same name, based on Guardians of Order's Silver Age Sentinels
• The Authority (His Dark Materials), a God-like character Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy of novels

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