Prime Ministerial Leadership, the Public Service and Administrative Reform in Canada: Part 1
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Doctors Phidd and Dwivedi present a detailed analysis of Prime Ministerial Leadership, the Public Service and Administrative Reform in Canada. The authors describe the history of the public service and administrative reform in Canada. While the role of the respective prime ministers is central to their discussion, they carefully describe legislation and institutional changes which impacted the public service as well. Detail is given concerning the role of the Privy Council, Treasury Board, Civil Service Commission, and other agencies, offices, task forces and commissions. Prime ministerial initiatives are juxtaposed against environmental challenges and government power blocks, suggesting a need to pay greater attention to how public sector organizations are managed. The authors go on to describe how contemporary public administration studies have pointed to the complexities involved in public sector organizations. They further suggest that this requires more analysis of what happens within public sector organizations. They also call for greater study of organizational development and change within the public sector. The Phidd & Dwivedi article presented in this issue ends in the 1980’s with the administration of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. Part two will cover “Prime Ministerial Leadership, the Public Service and Administrative Reform in Canada: Public Sector Reforms from the 1980’s to 2000 and Beyond”. Part two will appear in the Summer 2007 issue of this review.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
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 | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.010 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.001 |
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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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".