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Record W1529279683

State v. Zuma: The Future of Constitutional Democracy in South Africa

2009· article· en· W1529279683 on OpenAlexaff
Adam M. Dodek

Bibliographic record

VenueSSRN Electronic Journal · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicLegal Issues in South Africa
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Ottawa
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPresidencyDemocracyVictoryConstitutionalismIndependence (probability theory)LawPolitical scienceState (computer science)Judicial independenceRule of lawConstitutional lawConstitutional reviewSeparation of powersFreedom of the pressConstitutionPolitics
DOInot available

Abstract

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In April 2009, Jacob Zuma led the African National Congress (ANC) to a sweeping victory in South Africa’s fourth democratic elections since the end of Apartheid. Zuma’s ascension to the Presidency was the culmination of five years of legal battles. Collectively, these legal confrontations have created serious challenges to South Africa’s adolescent constitutional democracy. They raise many of the most important public law principles: constitutionalism, the rule of law, the independence of the judiciary, separation of powers, freedom of the press, prosecutorial independence and many more. In this article, I use the legal battles involving Jacob Zuma during 2008 and 2009 as a window into these larger constitutional issues both for South Africa and more generally

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.006
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.010
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.015
Threshold uncertainty score0.065

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0060.010
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0110.018
Scholarly communication0.0070.010
Open science0.0010.005
Research integrity0.0040.008
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.009
GPT teacher head0.272
Teacher spread0.263 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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