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Record W1868197697 · doi:10.14288/bcs.v0i8.670

The Provincial Party

2010· article· en· W1868197697 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Ian Parker

Bibliographic record

VenueOpen Collections · 2010
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCanadian Identity and History
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPoliticsLiberal PartyPolitical scienceLegislatureRealigning electionGovernment (linguistics)Single non-transferable votePublic administrationSplit-ticket votingPrimary electionPolitical economyGeneral electionDivided governmentPolitical machineDuverger's lawLawSociologySocialismDemocracyCommunism

Abstract

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The history of British Columbia has been marked by persistent attempts to reform provincial politics. Since 1920, these have frequently taken the form of advocating the election of an efficient non-partisan government unrestricted by organizational ties to federal parties or political machines. One significant attempt to achieve this goal may be seen in the history of the Provincial Party. Organized in 1922, the party ran fortyone candidates in the 1924 provincial general election. It elected three members to the Legislative Assembly, gained 24.2% of the popular vote, helped defeat both the leaders of the Liberal and Conservative parties and was credited with deciding the result in thirty-three of the forty-eight provincial ridings. Though the party soon disintegrated, its limited success offers evidence that, even in a period of relative economic and social stability, British Columbia voters were not committed to the traditional two party system. A reform party, promising the elimination of machine politics and governmental inefficiency, could obtain considerable electoral support. The Provincial Party had its origin in the convergence of two political developments in British Columbia in 1922. One of these was the failure of a group of dissatisfied Conservatives to force the resignation of the party leader, William John Bowser. The other was a movement among the United Farmers of British Columbia into the field of direct political action. The frustration of their individual efforts led to union and the formation of the Provincial Party with the first group providing most of the leadership and the second, a nucleus of popular support. Discontent within the Conservative party had been growing for a number of years. Bowser, a Vancouver lawyer and long-time power in the government of Sir Richard McBride, had become party leader and

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How this classification was reachedexpand

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)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies, Scholarly communication, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.047
Threshold uncertainty score0.996

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0480.000
Scholarly communication0.0090.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.000

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 head0.012
GPT teacher head0.259
Teacher spread0.246 · 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 teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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Published2010
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