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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"legitimate authority"”.
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Just war, legitimate authority and non-State actors
In the classical just war tradition, legitimate authority is central to the just use of force. This tradition is consistent with the argument, as posited by Augustine and Aquinas, that legitimate authority is the guiding principle through which all standards of justice flow. With its exclusive …
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The Effects of Construct Differentiation and Equal-Peer vs. Legitimate-Authority Relationships on Message Design in Compliance-Gaining Situations
… in which the communicator held a position with legitimate authority over the message target), and situational instantiation (three different hypothetical contexts were included to insure generality).
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A Case Study of Characteristics and Means of Person-to-Person Influence in American Kodály Music Education: Katinka Scipiades Dániel
… the social sciences' literature on influence: legitimate authority, attractiveness, expert authority, and trustworthiness. Responses were qualitatively analyzed to determine the role those variables played in Dániel's interpersonal influence. All interviewees were music teachers who used the …
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The Rise of the New Elite: the Evolution of Leadership in Kentucky, c.1770-1800
Utilising Max Weber's categorisations for legitimate authority, this thesis investigates how Kentucky society was organised from first settlement, through to the end of the eighteenth century, and how this society evolved. Weber’s categorisations are used to investigate who assumed authority at …
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Sultanate or Amirate? : the routinization of Chinggisid authority in the early Mongol Empire and the Ilkhanate of Iran
… provides a new interpretation of how political authority was conceived and transmitted by the ruling elite of the Early Mongol Empire (1227-1259) and its successor state in Iran, the Ilkhanate (1258-1335). Authority within the Mongol Empire was intimately tied to the character of its founder, …
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Sultanate or Amirate? : the routinization of Chinggisid authority in the early Mongol Empire and the Ilkhanate of Iran
… provides a new interpretation of how political authority was conceived and transmitted by the ruling elite of the Early Mongol Empire (1227-1259) and its successor state in Iran, the Ilkhanate (1258-1335). Authority within the Mongol Empire was intimately tied to the character of its founder, …
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Standing on the Toes of Giants: Social Movement Theory and the Case of the Learning Organisation.
… change management. This is derived through legitimate authority and a reliance on planning. Finally, a strategy of experimentation is balanced by challenging industry rules. Themes involving politics, corporate alignment and corporate longevity were found to have relatively little convergent …
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Hegemony, Private Actors, and International Institutions: Transnational Corporations as the agents of transformation of the trade regime from GATT to the WTO
… refers to the translation of political power to legitimate authority through obtaining the consent of subordinate actors, and is expressed in the consensual aspect of the exercise of power in a given world order. This dissertation primarily contends that the transformation of the trade regime can …
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Enforcing Global Strategies in Subsidiaries of Highly Decentralized Multinational Corporations. The Role of International Sales Managers
… counterparts. Top management needs to establish legitimate authority of intermediate managers by clear definitions of international matrix roles and management procedures. Central sales and marketing managers need to have enough international field experience to be able to correctly assess the …
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Visual Representation and the Body in Early Modern Anatomy
… of the anatomical body, practice and authority, while the second chapter looks into how the visual representation of anatomy shaped the identity of the anatomist as the legitimate authority of the body. The other three chapters are case studies which use the examples of the rete …
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Final Judicial Authority in the European Union: A Normative Framework
This is a thesis about final judicial authority, the authority of a court to have the final say over an issue brought before it. It develops a framework for thinking about it, and it applies this framework to the jurisdictional disputes between the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) and …
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Ethical decision-making: a treatise into the role of ethics in 21st century policing
… refuse to defer to the police officers legitimate authority and show the 'necessary respect'. It also identifies that the notion of 'the nine o'clock jury' is a consideration in police decision-making and that the desire to avoid scrutiny might lead an officer to make a decision they …