How does Max Weber's 'theory of authority' shape bureaucracy ? Analyse. (Answer in 150 words)

- How does Max Weber's 'theory of authority' shape bureaucracy ? Analyse. (Answer in 150 words)
Introduction
Weber's bureaucracy is not a description of offices but a deduction from a claim to legitimacy.

Body

1. What his theory of authority holds: Domination becomes authority when those subject to it believe in its legitimacy, and in Economy and Society Weber distinguishes three grounds of that belief: immemorial tradition, devotion to the exceptional grace of a leader, and the legality of enacted rules.
2. Which type bureaucracy rests on: The legal-rational. Obedience is owed to an impersonal order rather than to a person, and the superior is obeyed only within the jurisdiction the rule assigns him.
3. How that shapes its features: Every feature follows. If authority derives from rules, jurisdictions must be fixed and written, appeals must run up a hierarchy of offices, recruitment must be by examined competence since the rule cannot recognise birth, the office must be separated from the incumbent's property and salaried within a career, and conduct must be impersonal. Traditional authority, resting on the master's person, produces patrimonial retainers instead.

Conclusion
Where authority is personalised, bureaucratic form survives as procedure and decays as principle.