Max Weber - Der revolutionäre Wandel zur Moderne.

»Max Weber. The Revolutionary Change to Modernity. Non-legitimate Power and Democratic Charisma«: Occidental City is, according to Weber, the key factor in every society. The democratic city signifies a revolutionary step towards modernity. Tribal aggregations, synoecisms, bourgeois cities, municipalities, and states are accompanied by specific forms of power legitimization: initially, divine legitimation predominates, then democratic modernity attributes this role to the governed citizens. In »The City«, non-legitimate power and democratic charisma provides alternative modes of legitimization.