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Unit 1 Readings and Video Essay Response

Unit 1 Readings and Video Essay Response

Q Follow and use the structure when answering these questions (this is a part of your grade) The Discipline of Politics and Political Science Watch the video on Praxis and EffectivenessRobert Brem on Praxis and Effective-ness (Links to an external site.) and also read the “Democracy in 21st Century America” text book (pages 1 to 55 AND pages 221 to 224) and answer the question: 1. Relative to the Criteria of Effectiveness and its three components (see both the video and the article "Four Criteria of Ethical Policy Evaluation" on pages 221 to 224), which of the three facets of effectiveness (efficiency, sufficiency, or equity) do you consider the most important? And how do you meet the needs of the other two which you deem not as important? 2. Why? Explain your answer using the idea of Praxis (in the video) in support of your answer! 3. Reference text materials utilizing “in-text citation” style (regarding author, year, page #). Your answer should aim at about 500 words or more in response here.

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I personally consider the idea of efficiency to be the most important among other ideas of effectiveness. Efficiency can be summed up as the greatest amount of output that can be achieved as a result of minimal input from the side of the person taking on a challenge of effectiveness. Efficiency ensures that there is no wastage of resources while undertaking the work. In other words efficiency deals with the productivity of the action being performed and leads to the highest achievable score. Efficiency and Effectiveness are often considered the different sides of the same coin. Both of them however have a certain degree of difference associated with them even if their practical application deems them the same outward meaning