Authority (disambiguation)

Authority may refer to:

• Authority (management), formal or legitimate, specified in a charter
• Authority (sociology), the legitimate or socially approved use of power
• Authority (textual criticism), its reliability as a witness to the author's intentions
• Appeal to authority, type of argument in logic
• Authority control, library and information science, standardizing the names of entities
• High Authority (disambiguation), refers to several executive organizations or branches
• Police authority (UK), body charged with securing efficient and effective control of a territorial police area
• Public authority, a government chartered corporation such as a transit authority
• The Palestinian National Authority, the administrative organization established to govern the West Bank and Gaza Strip as a consequence of the 1994 Oslo Accords.

Entertainment

• The Authority, superhero comic book published by DC Comics, under the Wildstorm imprint, debuting in 1999
• The Authority, listed in characters of His Dark Materials, who debuts in the 2000 novel The Amber Spyglass
• The Authority, used by the autonomous council of vampire hierarchs in The Southern Vampire Mysteries novels and the TV series True Blood based off the novels.
• The Authority (professional wrestling), a faction in WWE created by Triple H and Stephanie McMahon.
• Authority (Southern Reach Trilogy), a 2014 book by Jeff VanderMeer, the second book in the Southern Reach trilogy.
• Authority (album) is a 2014 album by British electronic music group Client.

Internet

• Authority, a grading of a blog's worthiness, used by Technorati
• one of two scores assigned by the HITS algorithm, a scheme used for ranking web pages (also known as "Hubs and authorities")

See also

• Authoritarian personality, influential theory, developed in a 1950 book, by several UC Berkeley psychologists
• Authoritarianism, describes a form of government characterized by an emphasis on the authority of the state in a republic or union