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Authority and LegitimacyTwo key concepts appear critical to the emergence of the modern state (and contemporarystate-building): authority and legitimacy. Authority is generally defined asCombating Poverty by Re-Empowering the State 6the power During or right the 17 th to and give 18 th century, orders, the enforce state came rules to be, as and Weber deliver states, an judgment organization 12 that . Legitimacysuccessfully claimed the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territorycan be described as the quality or state of being in accordance with law or 10 . As such, itestablishedacquired the ability to advance the welfare of its citizens and manage society in line with its mandatedrules, standards and principles 13 .power 11 .Without sufficient physical authority, order cannot be established. People wouldAuthority and Legitimacyhave to fend for themselves as others would still be able to freely take their possessionsand, in the worst case, their life. Without legitimacy, the future survival andTwo key concepts appear critical to the emergence of the modern state (and contemporary state-building):authority and legitimacy. Authority is generally defined as the power or right to give orders, enforce rules anddevelopment deliver judgment of 12 the . Legitimacy state would can be described become as the volatile quality as or state its inhabitants of being accordance neither with render law or legitimateits existence nor its commands 13 .established rules, standards and principlesand actions. In order to fully and permanentlyWithout sufficient physical authority, order cannot be established. People would have to fend forestablish itself, the state thus first needs to secure a monopoly of violence over itsthemselves as others would still be able to freely take their possessions and, in the worst case, their life.territory, Without whereafter legitimacy, the future it has survival to dedicate and development itself of to the the state provision would become of public volatile as goods its inhabitants that promotethe well-being of its society and thereby forestall structural erosion from belowneither render legitimate its existence nor its commands and actions. In order to fully and permanentlyestablish itself, the state thus first needs to secure a monopoly of violence over its territory, whereafter it has(regionalism, poverty, ethnicism) by obtaining moral authority in the eyes of its citizensforestall (See Figure structural 1.). erosion from below (regionalism, poverty, ethnicism) by obtaining moral authority in theto dedicate itself to the provision of public goods that promote the well-being of its society and therebyeyes of its citizens (See Figure 1.).Figure Figure 1. 1. Authority and and Legitimacy LegitimacyAuthoritarian StateLegitimate StateThe StateThe StateRegionalismPhysicalAuthoritySocietyMonopolyof violence:securityMoralAuthoritySocietyPublicGoodsPovertyEthnicismShort-term social orderLong-term social order10 Weber, M.‘”Politics as a Vocation”. In From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology, edited by Gerth, H.H. and Mills,C.W., p.78. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1958.11 Mengisteab, K.“New Approaches to State-Building in Africa: The Case of Ethiopia’s Ethnic-Based Federalism”.African Studies 12 Merriam-Webster Review Vol. 40, No. Online 3, 1997, Dictionary. p.112.‘Authority’. 2009.64412 Merriam-Webster 13 Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. Online Dictionary.‘Authority’.‘Legitimate’. 2009.13 2009.Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary.‘Legitimate’. 2009.Idzenga 2009