Authority is one of the key issues in political studies, for the question of by what right one person or several persons govern others is at the very root of po

For thousands of years, people have used nature to justify their political, moral, and social judgments. Such appeals to the moral authority of nature are still

Neil Duxbury examines how precedents constrain legal decision-makers and how legal decision-makers relax and avoid those constraints. There is no single princip

In The Notion of Authority, written in the 1940s in Nazi-occupied France, Alexandre Kojève uncovers the conceptual premises of four primary models of authority