Authority

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Authority may refer to:

• Authority (management), formal or legitimate, specified in a charter
• Authority (sociology), the legitimate or socially approved use of power
• Authority (textual criticism), its reliability as a witness to the author's intentions
• Appeal to authority, type of argument in logic
• Authority control, term used in library and information science
• High Authority (disambiguation), refers to several executive organizations or branches
• Police authority (UK), body charged with securing efficient and effective control of a territorial police area
• Public authority or public benefit corporation, a government chartered corporation such as a transit authority
• The Authority, superhero comic book published by DC Comics, under the Wildstorm imprint
• The Authority, listed in Characters of His Dark Materials
• Authority, a grading of a blog's worthiness, used by Technorati
• one of two scores assigned by the HITS algorithm, a scheme used for ranking web pages (also known as "Hubs and authorities")

See also

• Authoritarian personality, influential theory, developed in a 1950 book, by several UC Berkeley psychologists
• Authoritarianism, describes a form of government characterized by an emphasis on the authority of the state in a republic or union

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