The Dynamics of Institutional Transformation: The Case of the Canadian Wheat Board
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Abstract
Abstract. This article provides an account of institutional transformation, the scope of which is greater than incremental adaptation but less than paradigmatic change. It highlights the role in institutional change of an institution's mechanism of reproduction, the competing discourses of its supporters and critics, the strategic actions of responsible policy makers, and the context of institutional bombardment. It argues that non-paradigmatic institutional transformation is likely in mature institutions based on a utilitarian logic, when actors internal to the institution mount a cognitive and normative discourse for institutional adaptation that is more compelling to authoritative policy makers and the relevant political community than that of critics demanding more radical reform. The success of this discursive exercise is in part determined by the context within which the debate over reform unfolds. Authoritative political actors also play a crucial role in the scope of institutional transformation by virtue of their political strategies and belief in the institution's system-wide functionality. Résumé. Cet article décrit une transformation institutionnelle qui se situe entre l'adaptation progressive et le changement paradigmatique. La discussion met en lumière le rôle que jouent, dans les transformations institutionnelles, les mécanismes de reproduction de l'institution, les discours concurrents de ses défenseurs et de ses critiques, les actions stratégiques des décideurs publics et les conditions auxquelles fait face une institution assiégée. L'argument avancé est que ce modèle de transformation intermédiaire a tendance à se matérialiser dans les institutions bien établies, conformément à une logique utilitaire, lorsque des agents internes présentent des arguments cognitifs et normatifs en faveur d'une réforme, qui ont plus de poids auprès des décideurs et acteurs politiques que les arguments des critiques prônant une réforme plus radicale. Le succès du discours des acteurs internes dépend, en partie, du contexte dans lequel le débat se déroule. En plus, les décideurs politiques jouent un rôle essentiel dans l'envergure du processus de transformation en vertu des stratégies politiques qu'ils poursuivent et de leur confiance dans l'utilité globale de l'institution.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.036 | 0.021 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.013 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.016 | 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".