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The 21 pages that link to Authority, each with the reason it gives.

• CoercionCompared with: Authority can secure compliance without necessarily using coercive threats.

• Command and controlRelated: Command depends on legitimate decision rights, not merely the ability to transmit instructions.

• Social statusCompared with: Formal authority can grant standing, but high status does not always carry decision-making rights.

• AccountabilityRelated: Accountability is often intended to constrain and scrutinize the use of authority.

• LeadershipRelated: Formal leadership may draw on authority, though influence can exist without it.

• Power (social and political)Compared with: Unlike power in general, authority rests on an accepted claim to legitimacy.

• Social hierarchyRelated: Authority turns a rank difference into an accepted power to issue commands.

• Dominance hierarchyCompared with: Authority rests on accepted roles or rules, not necessarily on an individual's dominance rank.

• HegemonyRelated: Authority may contribute to hegemony, but hegemony also concerns the wider acceptance of a social order.

• ObedienceNarrower topic: Obedience specifically concerns compliance with directives issued by an authority.

• Peer groupCompared with: Peer influence usually operates among relative equals rather than through formal authority.

• Political powerRelated: Authority turns some uses of political power into accepted rule rather than mere coercion.

• CredibilityCompared with: An authoritative position may influence credibility without establishing that a claim is true.

• Police legitimacyNarrower topic: Police legitimacy concerns whether the public accepts police claims to exercise authority.

• Political anthropologyRelated: Its social recognition distinguishes legitimate leadership from influence or coercion alone.

• DominateCompared with: Authority can produce compliance that resembles domination but rests on recognized legitimacy.

• Ralf DahrendorfRelated: Dahrendorf treated authority as the source of social conflict in organizations.

• Pierluigi CollinaRelated: His commanding presence became closely associated with a referee’s authority.

• Social philosophyRelated: Its justification distinguishes legitimate social rule from mere coercion.

• GavelRelated: A gavel makes the presiding officer’s power to control proceedings visible and audible.

• Mark MillarBroader topic: Millar’s run pushed the series toward larger-scale, more confrontational superhero storytelling.