FORMAL MODELS OF AUTHORITY

Eduardo Zambrano

Rationality and Society, 1999, vol. 11, issue 2, 115-138

Abstract: Talcot Parsons suggested in 1963 that there are basically three kinds of authority: utilitarian authority, coercive authority, and persuasive authority. In this paper, I show that the models developed by Gibbons and Rutten (1997), Hirshleifer (1991), Skaperdas (1992), Akerlof (1976) and Basu (1986) can be viewed as models where issues such as authority, power, influence and ideology, in the sense of Parsons, can be formally discussed. I also show the existence of an interesting difficulty in providing a contractarian interpretation of the State under the Parsonian view of governmental authority discussed in this paper.

Keywords: Political Economy; microeconomics of government; formal models of authority (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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