The Governor General and the Prime Ministers: The Making and Unmaking of Governments
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Governor General and the Prime Ministers: The Making and Unmaking of Governments , Edward McWhinney, Vancouver: Ronsdale Press; 2005, pp. 193. The political drama surrounding Paul Martin's minority government awakened media observers to the significance of the governor general, an office long dismissed as a ceremonial vestige of colonialism. There are remarkably few works that might enlighten them about the role. In general, one must seek for such understanding piecemeal through historical studies. This lays a heavy burden of responsibility on any new work purporting to, as Edward McWhinney puts it, define “contemporary ground rules for the exercise of the reserve, discretionary powers of the office” (19). In this not-so-crowded field, a work by a political scientist of McWhinney's considerable reputation could well emerge as the authoritative work on the subject. McWhinney offers it in this spirit, even appending some “Rules of Constitutional Prudence for a Contemporary Governor General.” But a note of caution is in order.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| 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 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".