Austerity, Social Program Restructuring, and the Erosion of Democracy:Examining the 2012 Employment Insurance Reforms
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Abstract
The austerity period in Canada, unfolding under the Harper government since 2011, has involved not just the cutting back of social programs, but a complex process of state re-regulation and restructuring in the social policy area. In announcing the turn to austerity the government stated that the post- 2008 recession deficit was to be eliminated “without raising taxes, cutting transfers to persons, including those for seniors, children and the unemployed, or cutting transfers to other levels of government that support health care and social services, Equalization, and the gas tax transfer to municipalities.” Despite this assertion, a significant re-orientation of social policy and social programs is occurring; one which has involved cuts, which is likely to have a significant impact on the level and quality of support and services available, to further increase inequalities and which charts new roles for the federal government in these areas. La periode d’austerite, debutee sous le gouvernement conservateur de Harper en 2011, n’a pas seulement implique la coupure des programmes d’aide sociale, mais aussi, la restructuration et la re-regulation dans le domaine de la politique sociale. Malgre les declarations faites par les conservateurs que la recession deficitaire post-2008 sera eliminee « sans augmentation des impots, coupure des transferts personnels, incluant ceux alloues aux personnes âgees, aux enfants, et aux personnes sans emploi, et, sans coupures des transferts des autres niveaux du gouvernement qui soutiennent la sante publique et les services sociaux, la perequation, et les transferts des impots sur le gaz aux municipalites », une reorientation significative de la politique sociale et des programmes sociaux a pris place. Cette reorientation inclus des coupures, qui vont fort probablement avoir un impact significatif sur la qualite du soutien et des services disponibles. Cela risque egalement d’augmenter les inegalites, et cela delimite des nouveaux roles pour le gouvernement federal dans ces domaines. Mots-Clefs : Assurance Emploi; democratie; programmes sociaux.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".