Roberts, Alasdair. 2006. Blacked Out: Government Secrecy in the Information Age. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press.
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.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
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 imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it