Question

What is legal-rational authority?

Answer 1

Legal rational authority is the form of leadership in which the authority of organisation or a ruling regime is largly tied to legal rationality

Answer 2

Rational legal authority, is a kind of leadership form, where the authority figure of a state or an organization is intricately related to bureaucracy, legitimacy and rationality, in terms of legality.

Legitimacy of authority comes from a set of rules ordained by the laws enacted in a country's system. It is an achievement over traditional conceptions.