Virtual Policy Networks in Forestry and Climate Change in the U.S. and Canada: Government Nodality, Internationalization and Actor Complexity
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Abstract
Abstract The Internet and the Web have changed policy formulation processes. The Web has increased the potential for governments to use information to manage the policy process and direct policy outcomes. It is argued that understanding the macro impacts of web‐based information and measuring the performances of online public sector information activities is vital to improving governments' web‐based capacity. This paper examines government nodality, internationalization, and actor composition in nine virtual policy networks to explore similarities and differences in online policy activities across different regions. The nine networks analyzed are issue specific, focused on forestry and climate change in four western Canadian provinces (Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia) and in five western U.S. states (Washington, Oregon, California, Montana, and Colorado). Discussion is focused on how specific contexts around governing priorities, political responses and issue‐specific policy problems shape the nature of virtual web‐based information networks.
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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
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 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 | 0.000 |
| 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)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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