Tears from an onion: Layering, exhaustion and conversion in British Columbia land use planning policy
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Most previous studies of policy change in the BC resource and environmental sectors have stressed the importance of exogenous factors, notably the changing profitability of key industries, such as forestry; the appearance of new actors and policy ideas; and the domestic and international linkages so ably exploited by ENGOs. Without denying the importance of these factors, this case study of BC’s integrated land use policy illustrates the weight that policy legacies bring to bear on the path of policy transformation. This study explores the interplay of the processes and outcomes of policy change by comparing the processes and outcomes of three consecutive regime transitions in BC land use policy. The transitions suggest a complex relationship between layering, exhaustion, and conversion, in which layered elements that are pushed to the background of the policy regime can either be allowed to die or be brought back to become the centrepiece of a policy transition that takes place without the appearance (and associated political costs) of novelty.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 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 it