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The evolving role of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities

2009· article· en· W2011397960 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
John A. Chenier

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Public Administration · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicSocial Sciences and Governance
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPolitical scienceLocal governmentPublic administrationPosition (finance)DemiseWelfare economicsBusinessEconomicsFinanceLaw

Abstract

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Abstract: Following its near demise in 1982, the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) adopted new goals and processes designed to increase satisfaction and deliver concrete results to its member municipalities. Over time, the FCM assumed the role of primary interlocutor or broker, establishing a bridge between federal intentions and local government needs and playing a central role in the aggregation, definition, articulation and advocacy of local government issues at the federal level. These FCM actions, in conjunction with the significant improvements in the financial position of the federal government, resulted in significant monetary transfers from the federal to local governments and large increases in FCM membership. At the close of 2005, the FCM was poised to achieve its ultimate goal of establishing a joint federal‐local mechanism for policy development as part of the New Deal. However, the election of the Harper government in 2006 led to a change in the federal position, leaving the FCM in a position remnminiscent of 1982 and a way forward that was suddenly less clear. While continuing to lobby strongly for fiscal transfers to municipalities, the FCM is assuming a broader role of filling the research void on local issues at the federal level. Sommaire : Après avoir pratiquement disparu en 1982, la Fédération canadienne des municipalités (FCM) a adopté de nouveaux objectifs et processus afin d'accroître la satisfaction de ses municipalités membres et de leur fournir des résultats concrets. Au fil des ans, la FCM a assumé le rôle de principal interlocuteur ou représentant, en servant d'intermédiaire entre les intentions du gouvernement fédéral et les besoins des administrations municipales et en jouant un rôle majeur dans le regroupement, la définition, la formulation et la défense des questions relatives aux administrations municipales à l'échelle fédérale. Ces mesures prises par la FCM, de concert avec les améliorations importantes de la situation financière du gouvernement fédéral, ont eu pour résultat d'importants transferts monétaires du gouvernement fédéral aux administrations municipales et de fortes augmentations d'adhésion à la FCM. À la fin de 2005, la FCM était sur le point d'atteindre son but ultime qui était d'établir un mécanisme conjoint fédéral‐municipal pour l'élaboration de politiques, dans le cadre du Nouveau pacte pour les municipalités canadiennes. Cependant, l'élection du gouvernement Harper en 2006 a entraîné un changement dans la position du gouvernement fédéral, laissant la FCM dans une position très similaire à celle de 1982 et avec des perspectives d'avenir soudainement plus obscures. Tout en continuant à exercer de fortes pressions en faveur des transferts fiscaux aux municipalités, la FCM assume un rôle plus vaste en comblant le vide dans la recherche sur les questions municipales à l'échelle fédérale.

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.967
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.027
GPT teacher head0.275
Teacher spread0.248 · 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 designTheoretical or conceptual
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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