Does Municipal Amalgamation Strengthen the Financial Viability of Local Government? A Canadian Example
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Abstract
The rationale for the amalgamation of Toronto, Canada in 1998 was to save costs but, as this paper shows, it did not achieve its objective. An analysis of per household expenditures in constant dollars for four services (fire, garbage, libraries, and parks and recreation) from 1988 to 2008 shows that expenditures increased after amalgamation for all services but libraries. At the same time, the amalgamation seems to have resulted in reduced access and participation by residents in local decision-making. On a positive note, the amalgamation increased the financial ability of the smaller and poorer municipalities in the newly created city by increasing their access to the tax base of the amalgamated city as a whole. It also equalized local services so that all city residents receive a similar level of services.
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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
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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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.
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