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Record W4236193226 · doi:10.1002/9781118430873.est0208

Legal‐Rational Authority

2017· other· en· W4236193226 on OpenAlexaff
Joseph Agassi

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Social Theory · 2017
Typeother
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicPolitical Philosophy and Ethics
Canadian institutionsYork University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRationalitySocial contractLawCharismatic authorityHegelianismPolitical scienceOrder (exchange)Law and economicsIrrational numberDemocracySociologyPhilosophyCharismaEconomics

Abstract

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Leaders' authority is usually justified as divinely ordained. The rationalist social contract theory justified it as resting on consent. Empirical study began with anti‐rationalist Romanticism. Hegel's theory of master and slave presents society as a pecking order. It renders social stability partial. Hegel ascribed the top authority to global leadership that moves from nation to nation. Émile Durkheim deemed the laws of the land as sanctioning the leadership whose task is unifying the nation. Max Weber saw the state as a monopoly of violence and deemed its leadership irrational (religion and charisma) though he allowed it rationality (as social contract of sorts). The Devlin–Hart debate on the rational source of authority failed. A new philosophy is more promising, heralded by Russell and more so by Popper. It deems that legal authority is rational not because it has this or that foundation, but because it is under constant democratic surveillance which forces leaders to improve.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.007
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.020
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.020
Threshold uncertainty score0.068

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0070.020
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0040.036
Scholarly communication0.0090.010
Open science0.0020.005
Research integrity0.0060.006
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0200.005

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.030
GPT teacher head0.330
Teacher spread0.300 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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