Deference, Given Not Taken

Five literatures converge on one point: deference given works differently from deference taken — Barnard&#x27;s acceptance theory of authority (1938), prestige and dominance as two routes to status (Henrich & Gil-White 2001), Weber&#x27;s belief in legitimacy (1922), autonomous over controlled regulation (Deci & Ryan 2000), self-organized commons rules (Ostrom 1990). The seed &#x27;all useful…