The NAC's Organizational Practices and the Politics of Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Canada
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Abstract
Abstract. As the formal “carriers” of the goals and agendas of social movements, social movement organizations (SMOs) are committed to both institutional and identity politics. Given this dual engagement, SMOs must attempt to reconcile their intraorganizational strategies for representation and mobilization with their intergroup strategies for instrumental action in the policy process. In this article, these tensions are explored in a case study of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women (NAC) and its involvement in the policy debate on reproductive technologies over 15 years. The article reveals how the NAC's capacity to influence and participate in the formulation of policy on reproductive technologies was challenged by its inability to resolve competing demands: those of institutional politics, which called for professional advocacy; and the internal demands emanating from its grassroots member groups, for deliberation and participation. The article also attributes the NAC's diminished effectiveness in the policy process to broader changes in the relations between the Canadian state and social movement organizations. Résumé. Les organisations qui se situent au coeur des mouvements sociaux se distinguent par leurs préoccupations qui sont à la fois institutionnelles et identitaires. Étant donné cette double préoccupation, ces organisations doivent constamment tenter de concilier leurs stratégies internes de représentation et de mobilisation et leurs stratégies externes d'intervention dans le processus de production des politiques publiques. Ces tensions sont examinées dans cet article grâce à une étude de cas qui porte sur le Comité canadien d'action sur le statut de la femme et son rôle dans le débat sur la procréation assistée au cours des 15 dernières années. L'article révèle que la capacité du Comité à participer à la conception des politiques canadiennes en matière de procréation et à l'influencer a été mise à l'épreuve par le tiraillement d'exigences divergentes : les exigences institutionnelles d'intervention professionnelle et les demandes internes de délibération et de participation émanant de la base du mouvement. L'article attribue aussi la réduction de l'efficacité du comité dans le processus de production des politiques à des changements dans les rapports qu'entretient l'État canadien avec les mouvements sociaux.
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Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.005 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.021 | 0.012 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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.
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