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Defying All Theories: AIDS Policymaking in Africa

2007· article· en· W2111530128 on OpenAlexaff
Simona Bignami

Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Studies Review · 2007
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicHIV/AIDS Impact and Responses
Canadian institutionsUniversité de Montréal
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLegitimacyPoliticsCivil societyState (computer science)Political sciencePandemicPolitical economyWork (physics)SociologyDevelopment economicsCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)Public administrationLawEconomicsMedicine

Abstract

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The worldwide AIDS pandemic has brought into focus questions of strong interest to political scientists, such as variations in institutional robustness and in the capacity and willingness of governments to fight the epidemic, as well as the interconnections between local and transnational actors (SwidlerForthcoming). Yet, academic work examining AIDS and politics in Africa remains conspicuously sparse. In The Politics of AIDS in Africa, Amy Patterson aims to fill this gap by tackling two issues: (1) the factors that account for different state responses to the AIDS epidemic, and (2) the role of civil society and international donors in AIDS policymaking. Both issues intersect directly with the traditional concerns of political science because they raise questions about the sources of state capacity, responsiveness, and legitimacy, as well as about the conditions under which positive partnerships between regimes and civil organizations can develop (Boone and Batsell 2001:5–6)....

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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)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.959
Threshold uncertainty score0.450

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
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 head0.151
GPT teacher head0.387
Teacher spread0.236 · 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.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreReview

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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