Local culture and governmental change: The endurance of culture in the face of structural change
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Abstract
Abstract: As part of a larger exploration of local civic culture, this article seeks to answer the following questions: Is there one culture across policy arenas? Is there a unified perspective on civic culture? Do cities with demographic and ethnic diversity have a single culture? Recent research has focused, or perhaps re‐focused, attention on the importance of culture in determining public policy at the local level. These efforts have classified different types of local culture in an attempt to develop an operationally sound and replicable definition of civic culture that can also delineate cities based on their cultural profile. The ultimate goal of such research is to explore how civic cultures affect public policies to not only provide researchers with a theoretical understanding of how communities are governed but also to identify the forces affecting ultimate policy choices. Using a triangulation of methods technique, this research employed a citizen phone survey along with five years of élite interviews in the City of Ottawa, Ontario. The focus on Ottawa provides an understanding of civic culture in light of significant governmental structural change, namely the provincially mandated amalgamation of seven cities, four townships, and the Ottawa‐Carleton Regional Municipality in 2001. Sommaire: Dans le cadre d'une étude plus approfondie de la culture municipale locale, le présent article cherche à répondre aux questions suivantes: Y a‐t‐il une culture propre à toutes les sphères de politiques? Existe‐t‐il une perspective unifiée sur la culture municipale? Est‐ce que les villes qui ont une diversité démographique et ethnique ont une seule et même culture? Des recherches récentes ont porté leur attention ‐ ou peut‐être porté leur attention à nouveau ‐ sur l'importance de la culture pour déterminer la politique publique à l'échelle locale. Ces efforts ont classé différents types de culture locale, afin d'essayer de mettre au point une définition de la culture municípale valable, pouvant être reproduite dans la pratique et qui puisse aussi délimiter les villes d'après leur profil culturel. Le but ultime d'une telle recherche est d'examiner à fond comment les cultures municipales influent sur les politiques publiques. Non seulement elles fournissent aux chercheurs une compré‐hension théorique de la manière dont les communautés sont gouvernées, mais elles permettent d'identifier les forces qui influent sur les choix politiques ultimes. Utilisant une méthode de triangulation, cette recherche a été menée par le biais d'un sondage téléphonique de citoyens ainsi que d'interviews de membres de l'élite dans la ville d'Ottawa, Ontario, sur une période de cinq années. Le fait de se pencher sur Ottawa fournit une compréhension de la culture municipale à la lumière d'importants changements structuraux gouvernementaux, à savoir le regroupement prescrit par la province de sept villes, quatre cantons et la municipalité régionale d'Ottawa‐Carleton en 2001.
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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 | 0.000 | 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 | 0.001 |
| 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 |
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 teacher head, 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".