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Deliberation in Congress

2011· book· en· W1676091394 on OpenAlexaff
Paul J. Quirk, William Bendix

Bibliographic record

VenueOxford University Press eBooks · 2011
Typebook
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicSocial Media and Politics
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDeliberationPoliticsPolitical scienceInstitutionProcess (computing)Intelligence analysisQuality (philosophy)Public relationsLaw and economicsEngineering ethicsManagement scienceSociologyEpistemologyLawComputer scienceEngineering

Abstract

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Winning and losing is a prominent feature of politics in Congress: an institution where decisions are determined by counting votes. In the politics of Congress, the more important concern is whether decisions are intelligent in the view of the circumstances of policy and the goals and interests relevant to a decision. Such intelligence depends on the manner Congress uses information and reasoning in making decisions. Simply put, intelligence depends on the quality of effectiveness of deliberation. While there has been vast research on Congress, most of it has been focused entirely on influence, coalitions, and other issues of winning and losing. Much of these research has overlooked deliberation and the intelligence of decisions. This neglect on the issue of deliberation is unfortunate as intelligent decision-making is rather difficult for Congress and stakes are generally high. Luckily, there has been an increasing interest in the process and problems of deliberation in Congress. This article reviews the development of literature that focuses on the issues of deliberation in Congress. It focuses on the conflicts and ambiguities, including advances in the literature of deliberation in Congress. It also offers some suggestions about promising directions for future work.

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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)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.009
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 score0.013
Threshold uncertainty score0.049

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.009
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.003
Science and technology studies0.0060.015
Scholarly communication0.0110.010
Open science0.0010.004
Research integrity0.0040.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0130.004

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 head0.044
GPT teacher head0.257
Teacher spread0.212 · 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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