Bibliographic record
Abstract
The release of Naomi Klein’s Shock Doctrine has popularized the notion that neoliberalism has relied on the rhetoric of crisis and emergency to persuade citizens to accept its economic dictates. How then does one “sell” the neoliberal vision when there can be no recourse to crisis rhetoric, particularly to a population steeped in a social democratic political culture? It is this question that this essay attempts to resolve by investigating the discourse of the “New Saskatchewan” that has been a favourite and recurrent meme of the Saskatchewan Party since the 2003 electoral campaign. This paper will argue that rather than relying on the rhetoric of crisis, the “New Saskatchewan” puts forward a discourse of prosperity that promises to unleash the full economic potential of the province through neoliberal economic policy. Moreover, the “New Saskatchewan” (NS) discourse has been specifically tailored to advance this neoliberal project in Saskatchewan by taking special care to address the local specificities unique to the politics of the province, while drawing upon historical narratives and themes that have been emblematic of Saskatchewan political history. La parution du livre The Shock Doctrine par Naomi Klein a popularisé l’idée que le néolibéralisme dépend d’une rhétorique de crise et d’urgence afin de persuader les citoyens d’accepter ses préceptes économiques. Comment peut-on vendre la vision néolibérale lorsqu’on ne peut pas recourir à une rhétorique de crise, en particulier vis-à-vis d’une population imprégnée d’une culture politique social-démocrate? Cet article s’adresse à cette question en examinant le discours de la Nouvelle Saskatchewan qui a été un mème favori et récurrent du parti Saskatchewanais depuis la campagne électorale de 2003. Cet article soutient que, plutôt que de se baser sur une rhétorique de crise, la Nouvelle Saskatchewan propose un discours de prospérité en promettant de déclencher le potentiel économique de la province par l’entremise d’une politique économique néo-libérale. Qui plus est, le discours de la Nouvelle Saskatchewan (NS) a été spécifiquement ajusté pour avancer le projet néo-libéral en Saskatchewan en abordant le caractère unique de la politique de la province, tout en puisant dans les récits historiques et thèmes qui ont été emblématiques de l’histoire politique de la Saskatchewan.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.012 | 0.023 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.014 | 0.008 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.001 |
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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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".