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Record W1972474204 · doi:10.1080/1357233042000322319

The executive and parliament in canada

2004· article· en· W1972474204 on OpenAlexaffabout
Jonathan Malloy

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Legislative Studies · 2004
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicPolitical Systems and Governance
Canadian institutionsCarleton University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsParliamentLegislaturePolitical scienceCabinet (room)ScrutinyPublic administrationSeparation of powersLawLegitimacyPower (physics)Government (linguistics)DemocracyLaw and economicsSociologyPolitics

Abstract

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Executive–legislative relations in Canada have long favoured prime ministers with strong legislative powers even by Westminster standards, although these are tempered by federalism and entrenched constitutional rights. Parliamentary parties are highly disciplined and defeats of government bills are virtually unknown. While parliamentary scrutiny of government is well established, its parameters and actual effectiveness are blurry. The appointed Senate can serve as a counterweight to executive power but it lacks sufficient legitimacy. Explanations and justifications for executive power include the need to craft delicate compromises for a diverse nation, complex leadership selection mechanisms that deter challenges of party leaders, and the historically high turnover of MPs and shortage of veteran parliamentarians, even in cabinet. The recent overthrow of Prime Minister Jean Chretien by Paul Martin shows executives are not invincible, but it remains to be seen how Martin will address what he has called a ‘democratic deficit’ in executive–legislative relations in Canada.

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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)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.010
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 score0.830
Threshold uncertainty score0.963

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.010
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.005
Science and technology studies0.0210.006
Scholarly communication0.0080.002
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0020.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0210.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.035
GPT teacher head0.325
Teacher spread0.290 · 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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Published2004
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