Considered the correct moral order

Deep historicity --> Codified by ideology

Ex: Patriarchy

Handed down fromt the past

Rulership over others without question --> Absolute 

Non-rational sources

Through a tale of origing (creation myth)

Ex: based on being the victors in a great battle over a common enemy, OR the founding of a kingdom 

Based on a special relationship with a diety

Full of factual errors, which are overlooked

Supported by physical attributes that thsoe in Authority have

-expensive dress, large palaces, jewels or crowns

Rituals recapitulate the ancient event

-Ancient mayan authority

Charismatic leader obtains authority over a set of followers by opposing tradition --> denouncing the status quo

-see this in a lot of cult leaders-- Jim Jones

-attempt to operate outside the systems --> without a lawful office 

Given by the leader's magic powers, revelations, etc.

-power of suggestion can be very strong

-seen as reformers

-secular: belief that the leader is revealing errors in popular traditional practices

A principle source of change and reform in society

Established through rational, legal means

Elected leaders

System of rule created by laws that have popular support

Selected through rational criteria

-ability to get the job done

Status allows them to rule

Electing them anchors their legitimacy

Attained and expressed by signs and arguments, attached to political and religious doctrines, popularized by popular slogans

Ex: Posters, monuments etc.

Extreme aggression

War is at one end of the spectrum

It is often justified in state ideology

Democracy

Religious, political, economic

Almsot no defensive war anymore

Dehumanize the enemy

We create a new status for them to morally accept their murder

-see them as fanatics, barbarians, etc.

Is not outright war only, it is also the threat of war

Threat of military intervention

-coercion

-practiced a lot today --> economic reasons --> global economy

Extreme form

Rule by force

Mainaining authority with threat and terror is very costly

Cosntant surveillance of large groups, very difficult

Dictatorship