POWER + AUTHORITY

- power = ability to get others to do things even when they don't want to (either through persuasion or coercion)
- if a state has power it is likely to have practical authority (obeying simply bc authority figure, can get people to act how they want bc they have power)
HOWEVER, two types of practical authority:
- descriptive practical authority: literally just ability to enforce laws and whereby citizens generally obey laws
- normative practical authority: where there is descriptive authority + the state is legitimate

- JUST having power isn't necessarily seen as having genuine authority bc citizens could simply be obeying because they are scared, not because they consent to do so.
- SO simply having power = likely to have descriptive practical authority
- BUT having power + being legitimate = normative practical authority

- HOBBES argues that any state with descriptive practical authority = legitimate
- others emphasise that there's a difference between simply having power + having genuine authority -> they argue that to be a genuine authority require legitimacy