administrative authority
Official decision-making body
Administrative authority is the power to manage, direct, or make decisions within an organization or government body.
It typically belongs to officials who implement policies rather than those who create them: The principal has administrative authority over school operations.
The term often appears in legal and bureaucratic contexts where jurisdiction or decision-making power is at issue.
- civil serviceGovernment's administrative workforce
- public servantGovernment worker serving citizens
- legislationOfficial enactment of statutes
- statuteEnacted written rule
- leadershipAbility to direct others
executive order · policymaking · municipal government · city hall · permit office · enforcement · hierarchy · chain of command · jurisdiction · oversight · regulation · mandate · bureaucracy · red tape · rubber stamp · ordinance · public policy · decision making
administrative authoritylegislative power
Capacity to create laws
legislative authority · judicial authority · judicial power · constitutional authority
administrative authoritypopular sovereignty
Populace holds ultimate authority
individual liberty · popular will · direct democracy · civil society · private enterprise
administrative authorityanarchy
Disorder from absent authority
lawlessness · chaos · self-governance · deregulation · laissez-faire
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