Abstract
The Patrimonial-Bureaucratic Empire is a pre-modern state model. As an ideal type, this model does not reflect the working of any actual state, but presents a catalogue of elements drawn from existing situations. Max Weber considers patrimonialism as a form of government centered on family structures, particularly on the authority of fathers in families. It is a form of political domination in which authority rests on the personal and bureaucratic power exercised by a royal household, where that power is formally arbitrary and under the direct control of the ruler. The political framework of this type is taken from Max Weber’s work on the concept of ‘Patrimonial state’ in his book Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology. Weber narrates that domination (authority) means the probability that certain specific commands (or all commands) will be obeyed by a given group of person. Domination (authority) is based on the most diverse motives of compliance. The ruler of a Patrimonial state governs on the basis of personal, traditional authority whose model is the Patrimonial family. Patrimonialism or Sultanism tends to rise whenever traditional domination develops an administration and a military force which are purely personal instruments of the master. Weber has presented three types of authority for legitimate domination which are as follows: 1. Legal Authority 2. Traditional Authority 3. Charismatic Authority