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Record W1547970945 · doi:10.14264/157926

The 'third way' in action: Inclusion at a cost

2003· dissertation· en· W1547970945 on OpenAlex
Clive Begg

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Bibliographic record

VenueThe University of Queensland · 2003
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicNonprofit Sector and Volunteering
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPolitical sciencePoliticsRespondentDemocracyGovernment (linguistics)Public administrationSociologyPublic relationsSocial scienceLaw

Abstract

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The recent emergence of the 'third way' as a construct formalised by Anthony Giddens, charting the middle ground between social democracy and neo-liberalism, follows an historically recursive trend. This latest variant, unlike its predecessors, has found favour across the world. The disparateness of opinion over its philosophy, together with a lack of research into its implementation requires data on its application to validate assertions that it either increases, or decreases, democracy and civic engagement. This research draws on the perceptions of 35 elite informants within government, nongovernmental organizations, for-profit, union and community sectors across four inferred 'third way' sites, the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States of America and Australia. Using recursive methods within and across respondent interviews, these perceptions were transcribed and coded. The narratives that formed the basis for interpretive inquiry were cast in a critical theoretical context to arrive at an understanding of what the 'third way' means in practice. The findings of this research indicated that respondents had mixed levels of knowledge about Giddens and the 'third way' and felt apprehension that dissent against government policy was being curtailed through funding and other strictures. The implications of the research suggest that the 'third way' (or new social democracy) is transportable from left to right and back again. The apparent primary intent of the 'third way' is the maintenance of government (the political imperative) at all costs with a conservative normative agenda (the moral imperative) to direct this process. Thus, traditional forms of social critique find no home in the 'third way'.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.826
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0040.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.025
GPT teacher head0.286
Teacher spread0.261 · 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