Some people believe that in order to be effective, political leaders must yield to public opinion and abandon principle for the sake of compromise. Others believe that the most essential quality of an effective leader is the ability to remain consistently committed to particular principles and objectives.
Write a response in which you discuss which view more closely aligns with your own position and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should address both of the views presented.
An effective leader is a must for growth of a nation. But predicting the effectiveness of certain decisions can be hard for a policy maker. And this arduous task is exacerbated when the opinion of public differs from the policy maker's own conclusion based on their principles. A politician may have to make descision as a policy maker which can risk their career. At the time, I believe, the best approach for a politician is to stick to their principles, because the people may not be always right. Also, the incongruity which results in the self can be deterimental for the future decision making ability. Moreover, the loudest noise could be of the minority, while the majority silently watches having faith in the elected politician.
Democracy has time and again shown to be the most effective political architecture for growth of a nation. Democracy necessarily means that the people themselves make the rules governing them, albeit indirectly, as opposed to a single person or a group of autonomous people making all the governing decisions. An elected politician principles, thus, represent the believes of the people themselves. Then in a scenario where people turn up against the decision of the politician regarding a certain policy, it could be concluded that emotions, and not reason and sacred principles, collude their judgement. For there is more pressure on a single politician to make an effective descision, then for a single person to shout in a public a reasoned argument. If a politician allows themselves to give in to the demands of the people, they are necessarily betraying the people who elected them on basis of their principles.
A writer once correctly said that the loudest voice heard in a public is of an idiot. Analogously, the loudest of the voices that a politician may hear and thus may give in to, may not be the most reasoned once. Which means that the public can't be relied on to make sound judgements regarding policies on which they are not advised by experts, unlike the politician themself.
Self reliance and confidence are very important characteristics of a politician, or a leader in general. Whenever a politician loses the confidence on their own abilities, such as of making a judgement call, it doesn't prove good for the effectiveness of the final decisions. Giving in to the external voices which do not provide strong arguments but rhetoric, like that of the general public, may lead to incongruity in the self of a politician. Such incongruity can affect both self reliance and the confidence, which can then turn them into poor leaders.
A politician not giving into the arguments of public may be said to be arrogant by some. But if arrogancy leads to efficacy, then it is not a bad thing. Others may argue how democracy necessarily means the rule of people, and thus such a politician should give in. But in democracy, rationality should not be thrown away. If not prevented by the law, a politician is not wrong in sticking to their principles. But rationality can't be guaranteed to come through the public.
An effective politician is one who stays true to his principles. Thus even in case of strong pressure from the public, a politician should rely on his own judgement making abilites. It is only in the toughest times that the core strength of a person is attested.
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Suggestion: doesn't
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Message: Did you mean 'can't' or 'cannot'?
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'if', 'may', 'moreover', 'regarding', 'so', 'then', 'thus', 'while', 'in general', 'such as']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.210272873194 0.240241500013 88% => OK
Verbs: 0.152487961477 0.157235817809 97% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0802568218299 0.0880659088768 91% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0642054574639 0.0497285424764 129% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0353130016051 0.0444667217837 79% => OK
Prepositions: 0.123595505618 0.12292977631 101% => OK
Participles: 0.0449438202247 0.0406280797675 111% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.90155601907 2.79330140395 104% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0288924558587 0.030933414821 93% => OK
Particles: 0.0016051364366 0.0016655270985 96% => OK
Determiners: 0.133226324238 0.0997080785238 134% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0304975922953 0.0249443105267 122% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0176565008026 0.0148568991511 119% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 3349.0 2732.02544248 123% => OK
No of words: 565.0 452.878318584 125% => OK
Chars per words: 5.92743362832 6.0361032391 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.87542086881 4.58838876751 106% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.359292035398 0.366273622748 98% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.26017699115 0.280924506359 93% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.205309734513 0.200843997647 102% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.161061946903 0.132149295362 122% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.90155601907 2.79330140395 104% => OK
Unique words: 243.0 219.290929204 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.430088495575 0.48968727796 88% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 50.6931518577 55.4138127331 91% => OK
How many sentences: 29.0 20.6194690265 141% => OK
Sentence length: 19.4827586207 23.380412469 83% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.6468363433 59.4972553346 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.482758621 141.124799967 82% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.4827586207 23.380412469 83% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.413793103448 0.674092028746 61% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.94800884956 121% => OK
Language errors: 5.0 5.21349557522 96% => OK
Readability: 45.5004577357 51.4728631049 88% => OK
Elegance: 1.50318471338 1.64882698954 91% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.51768784857 0.391690518653 132% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.102748419861 0.123202303941 83% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0510066822301 0.077325440228 66% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.524138292587 0.547984918172 96% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.118647247816 0.149214159877 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.19575482877 0.161403998019 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0774954434301 0.0892212321368 87% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.415961454479 0.385218514788 108% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.104129092139 0.0692045440612 150% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.34651633149 0.275328986314 126% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0650456650777 0.0653680567796 100% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 16.0 10.4325221239 153% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.30420353982 113% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.88274336283 143% => OK
Positive topic words: 13.0 7.22455752212 180% => OK
Negative topic words: 5.0 3.66592920354 136% => OK
Neutral topic words: 5.0 2.70907079646 185% => OK
Total topic words: 23.0 13.5995575221 169% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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Note: This is not the final score. The e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.