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.
Leaders at all levels are often faced with dilemma whether to take a decision which adheres to their moral principles or make a compromise. However, in case of political leaders this dilemma is even more magnified due to the fact that their decision would affect a quite a large number of people. Thus, at the critical juncture it becomes even more difficult whether to take the decision upholding their moral principles or by compromising on some of them.
Political leaders, are leaders who are appointed by the people directly and have a considerable amount of responsibility towards the common people. Thus, in this case what becomes of significant importance is the ability to take politically correct decisions. However, while taking these politically correct decisions there are can be situations where the leader might have to bend his moral principles for greater good. A simple example to illustrate this would be, political leaders often give subsidies, or offer land at a much lower price to big industries. This may appear morally disturbing as the political leader is involved in giving undue advantages to these big players, but they might have taken this decision so as to provide more employment opportunities to the people. Hence, in this case if the political leader would have tried to stick to the moral principles rather than on compromising them, then it may not have been politically correct.
Apart from the above, there also can be several instances, where ceeding to the public demand becomes necessary which on contrary may lead to severe political instability and there by leading to violent outbreaks in the country. Hence, in these cases, not only the image of the political leader are compromised, but also results in civil strife in the nation, which is detrimental for both people and the political leader. Therefore, in these cases, trying to adhere to moral principles would be a parlous decision. A notable example would be that of Hitler, who during second world war, always prophesied the soldiers to never retreat. However, had the soldiers retreated during the critical time of the war, Hitler might not have lost the war. Thus, it was strict adherence to the moral principles which lead to his defeat.
However, there are also situations where the political leaders might have to take a decision where moral principles become more significant. Issues concerning the well being and health of the public should never be influenced by the public opinion. Rather, these decisions should be taken with adhering with moral principles.
Thus, in order to be effective political leaders, it may be true that they should yield to the public opinion in most cases. However, regarding certain issues, the political leaders should not dissolve their moral principles.
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'hence', 'however', 'if', 'may', 'regarding', 'second', 'so', 'then', 'therefore', 'thus', 'well', 'while', 'apart from', 'as to', 'in most cases']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.194059405941 0.240241500013 81% => OK
Verbs: 0.154455445545 0.157235817809 98% => OK
Adjectives: 0.110891089109 0.0880659088768 126% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0792079207921 0.0497285424764 159% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0277227722772 0.0444667217837 62% => OK
Prepositions: 0.0970297029703 0.12292977631 79% => OK
Participles: 0.0455445544554 0.0406280797675 112% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.6805925336 2.79330140395 96% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0475247524752 0.030933414821 154% => OK
Particles: 0.0 0.0016655270985 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.106930693069 0.0997080785238 107% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0376237623762 0.0249443105267 151% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.0217821782178 0.0148568991511 147% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2808.0 2732.02544248 103% => OK
No of words: 456.0 452.878318584 101% => OK
Chars per words: 6.15789473684 6.0361032391 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.62105577807 4.58838876751 101% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.381578947368 0.366273622748 104% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.285087719298 0.280924506359 101% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.195175438596 0.200843997647 97% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.135964912281 0.132149295362 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6805925336 2.79330140395 96% => OK
Unique words: 209.0 219.290929204 95% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.458333333333 0.48968727796 94% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Word variations: 51.0478889943 55.4138127331 92% => OK
How many sentences: 20.0 20.6194690265 97% => OK
Sentence length: 22.8 23.380412469 98% => OK
Sentence length SD: 41.5887905571 59.4972553346 70% => OK
Chars per sentence: 140.4 141.124799967 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.8 23.380412469 98% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.85 0.674092028746 126% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.94800884956 101% => OK
Language errors: 4.0 5.21349557522 77% => OK
Readability: 51.3087719298 51.4728631049 100% => OK
Elegance: 1.28787878788 1.64882698954 78% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.480539583938 0.391690518653 123% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.129998405435 0.123202303941 106% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.0721947232179 0.077325440228 93% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.548578905677 0.547984918172 100% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.110707870427 0.149214159877 74% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.194646789819 0.161403998019 121% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0847856540699 0.0892212321368 95% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.431041926739 0.385218514788 112% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0636662682712 0.0692045440612 92% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.327863553709 0.275328986314 119% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0653269189478 0.0653680567796 100% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 10.4325221239 67% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 5.30420353982 151% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.88274336283 102% => OK
Positive topic words: 7.0 7.22455752212 97% => OK
Negative topic words: 7.0 3.66592920354 191% => OK
Neutral topic words: 5.0 2.70907079646 185% => OK
Total topic words: 19.0 13.5995575221 140% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 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.