Concept
Traditional authority
Overview
Traditional authority is a form of leadership in which the authority of an organization or a regime is largely tied to tradition or custom. Reasons for the given state of affairs include belief that tradition is inherently valuable and a more general appeal to tradition.
Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).
Related ideas
- Family
- Feudalism
- Sociology
- Monarch
- Monarchy
- Max Weber
- Western world
- Charismatic authority
- Patriarchy
- Tradition
- Theocracy
- Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
- Aristocracy
- Piety
- Autocracy
- Confucianism
- Sultan
- Ideal type
- Ancient Egypt
- Europe
- Rational-legal authority
- Pyramid
- Patrimonialism
Place in the tradition
Part of Conservatism.