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Record W1575280428 · doi:10.24908/ss.v6i3.3293

Roberts, Alasdair. 2006. Blacked Out: Government Secrecy in the Information Age. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press.

2009· article· en· W1575280428 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueSurveillance & Society · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicIntelligence, Security, War Strategy
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSecrecyGovernment (linguistics)Political scienceLaw and economicsPhilosophySociologyLaw

Abstract

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In Blacked Out, Alasdair Roberts, introduces the topics of transparency and government secrecy through a discussion of the marked increase of access to information legislation, also known as freedom of information legislation, enacted in the 1990s.Roberts is one of the foremost scholars in this field, as well as a long-term right-to-know advocate and user of access to information measures.Roberts contextualises right-to-know movements globally through a survey of their victories, particularly by tracing the trend toward enacting access legislation.He notes that in the early 1980s, only 8 countries had access legislation, but over the following two decades that number rose sharply to 59 countries (as of 2004).Through telling examples of exposing corruption and government abuses in India, Thailand, Japan, Great Britain, and Uganda, among others, he demonstrates the benefits of a legislated right to access government documents, and government transparency more generally.

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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)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.702
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0010.000
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 head0.014
GPT teacher head0.251
Teacher spread0.237 · 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