Authority (disambiguation)
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Authority can refer to:
Types of authority
- Authority in politics generally refers to the ability to make laws or rules
- A Public Authority, a public benefit corporation chartered by a state government; most public authorities operate as for-profit corporations, with the ability to issue municipal bonds
- Authority (management) refers to the five recognized types of management authorities:
- * coercive authority
- * expert authority
- * formal authority, also known as legitimate authority
- * referent authority
- * reward authority
- Church authority, the authority (assumed or perceived) that a church has to decide what is orthodox and what is heresy
Other uses of the word
- Appeal to authority, a type of logical argument which is one method of obtaining propositional knowledge and is often a logical fallacy
- Police authority, in the United Kingdom, a body charged with securing an efficient and effective British police force for its area
- An authority in New York is a public benefit corporation, usually one that controls public infrasture or is designed to encourage economic development
\"Authority\" in fiction
- The Authority, a Wildstorm superhero comic book series
- The Authority, a role-playing game set in superhero comic book universe of the same name, based on Guardians of Order's Silver Age Sentinels
- The Authority (His Dark Materials), a God-like character Philip Pullman's trilogy of novels
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