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.
“Leadership has different styles”. In other words, the research has shown that leadership qualities can be exhibited through different execution styles namely, through going along with the people, following up with demagogue or be pedantic. However, when it comes to measuring its effectiveness, the context or the background in which it is being exercised is matter. The prompt offers two contrasting views on the effectiveness of a political leader, i.e., through succumbing to public opinion or through restricted to the principles. In my view, the political leader who practices austerity in principles would become more effective in delivering what has been assured before election. The reasons justifying my view are mentioned in the following paragraphs.
First of all, a political leader must affirm on his principle to achieve financial and economic prosperity for his country which would make his position tenable and should not heed to public opinion. For instance, when new Government took over, it decided to bring down the budget deficit of India in order to provide sustainability and assurance to foreign investors that their money would be in safe hands while ignoring the public opinion of making huge spending. The result was that investors responded to commitment of Government and invested USD 56 bn in three years from 2015 to 2018 which created jobs, new companies and large tax base. Further, when the same Government showed to the world business leaders that it is firm on opening up of its economy leaving the public opinion of not allowing foreign companies into India behind, business leaders established their presence in India in different sectors and helped India to tackle falling output and employment. Therefore, public opinion must not be attended by political leaders since they have potential to derail the national financial and economic interests.
Secondly, when it comes to national security or the issue of sovereignty, political leaders must not digress from their principles of protecting it by any means necessary, though public opinion may come and intend to prevent it with the objective to harm or break the national society into pieces. For instance, when Government of India resolute to face Maoists in 1996, a local insurgents in India, by taking the bull by the horns approach, India witnessed Backlash since the protesters were funded by these insurgents. However, the approach of the Government mitigated the situation and helped India to achieve peaceful society after a brief chaos and thereafter, the citizen started to feel safety and security. Further, when lately Government of India decided not to take part in any diplomatic talks with its neighbouring country, i.e., Pakistan to resolve the Kashmir issue, large section of Muslims in India took it to the streets violently. However, the Government was committed in its manner to state that insurgency and talks cannot go simultaneously, thus, builded up the pressure on Pakistan to accede to What India demands and as a result Pakistan had to stop supporting rebel group in India and the region of Kashmir started to feel prosperity once again. Therefore, public opinion may prevent the Government to take stringent actions on insurgents, thus must not be listened to by a political leader.
Finally, the intent and resolution of Government to tackle the issue of corruption in public system pays price in the short run but would bring in fruits in the long run. For example, when Government of India promulgated a Right to Information law in India in 2005, it provided the confidence to citizen and opportunity to citizens to file an appeal against any Government authority for delaying the processing of public matter. This law initially faced criticism since public opinion was influenced by the Government officers, thus wanted to stop its implementation. However, Government sticked to its path and citizen started to realise that it is for their benefits. Further, the establishment of e-Governance cell in every department of Government witnessed chaos initially since public opinion was that large section of Indian society is not equipped with internet or computers, thus would even make the public matters difficult to process. However, the Government resolution to implement it across all villages of India made the processing of files and cases transparent and time bound, thus made the life of citizen better. Therefore, public opinion may not know what the Government intentions are or what it may bring in during the next 5 years, thus, following the path of austerity is advisable.
Of course some would argue that effective leadership can also be shown by succumbing to the public opinion such as meeting the demands of public to create employment, to handle or stem the flow of immigrants or to create better health and education facilities. However, the proponent of this idea must understand that public opinion is always diverse and not converging to the common goal, thus would make even difficult for the Government to consider to whom to listen to. For example, stemming the immigrants would divide the society into some people favouring it since they are enjoying what belongs to the native citizens and some people objecting it since some of them are their relatives. Therefore, while concluding, Government must be determined to follow its principles.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 380, Rule ID: A_PLURAL[2]
Message: Don't use indefinite articles with plural words. Did you mean 'insurgent'?
Suggestion: insurgent
...solute to face Maoists in 1996, a local insurgents in India, by taking the bull by the hor...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, may, second, secondly, so, therefore, thus, while, for example, for instance, of course, such as, as a result, first of all, in my view, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.5258426966 128% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 22.0 12.4196629213 177% => OK
Conjunction : 33.0 14.8657303371 222% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 21.0 11.3162921348 186% => OK
Pronoun: 46.0 33.0505617978 139% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 149.0 58.6224719101 254% => Less preposition wanted.
Nominalization: 42.0 12.9106741573 325% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 4552.0 2235.4752809 204% => Less number of characters wanted.
No of words: 864.0 442.535393258 195% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.26851851852 5.05705443957 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.42161202166 4.55969084622 119% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.84087952815 2.79657885939 102% => OK
Unique words: 387.0 215.323595506 180% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.447916666667 0.4932671777 91% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 1413.9 704.065955056 201% => syllable counts are too long.
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 3.0 6.24550561798 48% => OK
Article: 15.0 4.99550561798 300% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 9.0 3.10617977528 290% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.77640449438 0% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 28.0 20.2370786517 138% => OK
Sentence length: 30.0 23.0359550562 130% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 71.0856410771 60.3974514979 118% => OK
Chars per sentence: 162.571428571 118.986275619 137% => OK
Words per sentence: 30.8571428571 23.4991977007 131% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.82142857143 5.21951772744 131% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.13820224719 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.83258426966 145% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.20258014704 0.243740707755 83% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0634047859143 0.0831039109588 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0566846123092 0.0758088955206 75% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.131333191795 0.150359130593 87% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0450069168171 0.0667264976115 67% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 18.8 14.1392134831 133% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.03 48.8420337079 84% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 15.0 12.1743820225 123% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.88 12.1639044944 114% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.83 8.38706741573 105% => OK
difficult_words: 203.0 100.480337079 202% => Less difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 14.0 11.2143820225 125% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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