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.
The two ideas mentioned here contradicts at times but they do not necessarily cancel each other. Working in accordance to people's voice can itself be an ethics. Ultimately, leaders aren't working alone, they are negotiating power and the political and social structure in country thus it's a fallacy to consider a leader to be just as oneself. He is as much as the self as he is a personification of the system.
An ideal government should be pro-people. We have moved much ahead of the idea that an intellectual or an any individdual as such can take decision for the the vast majority of public. There has been voices in the anti-race movement to show that an pro-people humanistic government is one who interacts with the social movements and working more on the local concerns than just addressing issue in form of centralized national level policy. Several such local level policy can itself form the larger policy framework, providing a scope for diverse and varied solution. Till now what we have seen, that nation state due to its own insecurities have made sure that the state government is dominated by the center. Such a method of governance has meant to be very exclusive for public from diverse social backgrounds, especially in large and diverse nations like India or United States. So, what is being emphacized here is that if we plan from the local to the state and then to the central, that is decentralized model of governance can be far more inclusive and humanitarian. In such case the clash between the humanitarian ethics and the priciple of an ideal political leader conforms.
Overall, two attribute essential in politics are rationality and pragmatism. The above mechanism actually takes care of the both and is far more effective than a centralized governance. Thus, this allows us to mitigate the apparent contradiction between the two statements. Otherwise the second statement is rather idealistic and if played out in reality can have dangerous fallout. As a political leader cannot be simply driven by ideal and principle, especially if these principles and ideals stand opposed to the public. This is so because a leader cannot be working in a vacuum. Whom the leader is representing is the same person who elected him, if his principles stand opposed to his constituents then he can hardly be the people's leader, thus becomes an authoritarian.
Though, an important point in this debate is- who is considered as the "public". As we have seen in past that Women were not considered "public" (citizen with rights) before the Suffragette movement. Same happened for other marginalized groups, for long; they had to take to the streets to be considered as public by the political leaders. Thus, at times, the "public"- that is only men before Suffragette- had to be negated for a more progress toward a more humanitarian society. So rationalism and humanitarian concern are primary, it may at times come form the "public" and at time be opposed to it. Though what was needed here was to expand the definition of the word itself. That being done, as a just and rational cause, emphasize that its the "Public"(with its expanded meaning) plays a crucial role in politics.
Thus a good leader is one who remains in constant engagement with the Public and does not consider himself as the source of all moral upliftment.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, but, if, may, second, so, then, thus, as to
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 36.0 19.5258426966 184% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 10.0 12.4196629213 81% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 14.8657303371 135% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.3162921348 133% => OK
Pronoun: 39.0 33.0505617978 118% => OK
Preposition: 64.0 58.6224719101 109% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 12.9106741573 124% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2845.0 2235.4752809 127% => OK
No of words: 564.0 442.535393258 127% => OK
Chars per words: 5.04432624113 5.05705443957 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.87326216964 4.55969084622 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.14287391264 2.79657885939 112% => OK
Unique words: 285.0 215.323595506 132% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.505319148936 0.4932671777 102% => OK
syllable_count: 917.1 704.065955056 130% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 6.24550561798 160% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 6.0 3.10617977528 193% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 4.38483146067 91% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 27.0 20.2370786517 133% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 47.6594860631 60.3974514979 79% => OK
Chars per sentence: 105.37037037 118.986275619 89% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.8888888889 23.4991977007 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 1.96296296296 5.21951772744 38% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 11.0 7.80617977528 141% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.2758426966 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 10.0 4.83258426966 207% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.199144301905 0.243740707755 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0589185053209 0.0831039109588 71% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0464409817358 0.0758088955206 61% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.120447744284 0.150359130593 80% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0318889046667 0.0667264976115 48% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.8 14.1392134831 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.8420337079 105% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.95 12.1639044944 98% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.69 8.38706741573 104% => OK
difficult_words: 145.0 100.480337079 144% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 54.17 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.25 Out of 6
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