{"id":10956,"date":"2023-03-28T17:20:36","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T17:20:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/canadas-parliamentary-system-of-responsible-government-allows-for-the-possibility-of-minority-governments-on-balance-minority-governments-are-preferable-not-preferable-to-majority-governm\/"},"modified":"2023-03-28T17:20:36","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T17:20:36","slug":"canadas-parliamentary-system-of-responsible-government-allows-for-the-possibility-of-minority-governments-on-balance-minority-governments-are-preferable-not-preferable-to-majority-governm","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/canadas-parliamentary-system-of-responsible-government-allows-for-the-possibility-of-minority-governments-on-balance-minority-governments-are-preferable-not-preferable-to-majority-governm\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s parliamentary system of responsible government allows for the possibility of minority governments. On balance, minority governments are [preferable\/not preferable] to majority governments."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Notice that the way each topic is worded encourages you to take a definitive stand on the<\/p>\n<div>issue in question. While it is of course possible to write a neutral paper on any of the candidate<\/div>\n<div>topics listed, for the purposes of this paper you should present the strongest argument you<\/div>\n<div>can either for or against the issue in question.<\/div>\n<div>Importantly, this does not mean that you should ignore arguments in support of the opposite<\/div>\n<div>position\u2014presenting the strongest possible argument will require that you acknowledge and<\/div>\n<div>respond to positions antithetical to your own. An excellent paper will both present arguments<\/div>\n<div>in support of the position it defends as well as provide reasons that challenge the position(s)<\/div>\n<div>it does not.<\/div>\n<div>A more detailed grading rubric will be available within the next week or two.<\/div>\n<div>The paper is to be 6-8 pages in length (double-spaced) and will be evaluated for clarity,<\/div>\n<div>originality and argumentative acumen<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notice that the way each topic is worded encourages you to take a definitive stand on the issue in question. While it is of course possible to write a neutral paper on any of the candidate topics listed, for the purposes of this paper you should present the strongest argument you can either for or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[762],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/10956"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/10956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=10956"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=10956"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=10956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}