4. The Literature:

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2. Гаджиев К.С. Введение в политическую науку. М., 1997г.

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5. Control questions (feedback):

1. To define the concept of politics.

2. What are the elements of politics?

3. What are the functions of politics?

6. Illustrations and a distributing material: to use multimedia lectures and schemes on a theme: « the politics in system of a public life ».

1. Theme №4: Authority as a political phenomenon

2. The aim: to explain concepts of authority, to reveal the essence of political authority, legitimacy of authority and its types.

3. The plan and theses of lecture:

1. Essence and concepts of authority.

2. Concept of political authority and its feature.

3. Legitimacy of authority. Legitimacy types.

1. The authority can be defined as a realization way of the general interests in achievement of overall aims. There are various approaches in definition of concept "authority". For example, authority are the relations, in which will and action of ones dominate over will and action of others. Political scientists consider political authority, that is authority above all society as a whole. All members of the society must submit to this authority , therefore political authority are the supreme form of authority.

The basic conceptions of authority are: teleologic, behaviors, psychological, low and other conceptions, which explain the nature authority’s beginning. Political authority is ability of the certain class or the big social group or the majority of the society, and also the organizations of individuals representing them, to spend the will in relation to other groups, separate individuals, to carry out the general interests and the purposes by violent and nonviolent means. The political authority is based on the conventional, legalized system of values and on the basis of cultural traditions or belief in supernatural abilities of the person. The authority functions according to the law, and some times contrary it. The concept of legitimacy means the recognition by society, by the masses the validity and necessity of the political authority and its carriers. In narrow sense legitimacy characterizes legality of authority. In a broad sense legitimacy is conformity of authority of the law to the established norms, and also to the basic purposes of the state and to the standard principles and values. There are various types of legitimacy, including traditional, charismal, is rationally-legal.

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