Comparative Study — Power and Authority (Specified)

Put a dictator who rules by fear and an elected chief minister who rules by mandate side by side. Both can get the police to act, both can get a law enforced, both are obeyed. Laid out point by point, though, almost nothing else about how they are obeyed is the same — and this topic is that side-by-side comparison, specified for the exam.

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Power and authority both secure compliance, but they differ in source, stability, the presence of an accepted right to command, and how they respond when force is removed from the picture.

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