Practice question · Match the pairs
Match each type of legitimate domination to its ground.
- Traditional
- Charismatic
- Legal-rational
- Ideal type
- The personal qualities of a leader
- Impersonal rules, competently applied
- An analytic construct no real case matches exactly
- It has always been so
Hints
- Three are the grounds; the fourth names what kind of thing the three are.
- Weber built the three as constructs rather than descriptions.
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- Traditional → It has always been so
- Charismatic → The personal qualities of a leader
- Legal-rational → Impersonal rules, competently applied
- Ideal type → An analytic construct no real case matches exactly
Why
The fourth pair is the one students skip and then misuse the other three. Weber's types are ideal types: deliberate exaggerations built to measure real cases against, so finding that a regime mixes all three is the expected result rather than a refutation.
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