Question

Technically the bureaucracy represents the purest type of legal rational authority

Answer 1

Weber divided legitimate authority into three types:

The first type discussed by Weber is legal-rational authority.

The second type of authority, traditional authority, derives from long-established customs, habits and social structures.

The third form of authority is charismatic authority.

Answer 2

According to Max Weber, Authority is a legitimate exercise of power along with a sense of obedience by subordinates.

Thus a bureaucracy is the purest type of rational-legal authority.

There is an office of hierarchy in an administration which prevents arbitrary use of power. A system of formalism prevails in the administration as evidenced by the requirement of written orders.

There is also a separation of the position of power from the appropriation of resources along with accountability for the use of resources.

All this proves our first assertion.