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Some Critical Notes on “Governance”

2004· article· en· W2227499518 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
William Walters

Bibliographic record

VenueStudies in Political Economy · 2004
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicEuropean Union Policy and Governance
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCorporate governancePolitical scienceEconomic systemPolitical economyPublic administrationSociologyEconomicsManagement

Abstract

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We begin with William Walters' interrogation of the concept of governance. Walters notes that this concept has replaced that of government in many political arenas: we speak of global governance when discussing international organizations and relations; multilevel governance regarding the EU, and urban governance to describe political relations at the local level. The term suggests that, rather than being centralized and hierarchical, systems of political rule now operate in a more fluid and cooperative fashion involving multiple private as well as public actors. The concept is indicative of a shift in political studies away from institutions to processes of rule. The way in which the concept is applied suggests two differing tendencies in the understanding of politics: one, politics as technocratic management and, two, politics as the search for consensus and problem solving. Williams is concerned with the anti-political nature of these tendencies and opens a space of reflection on the concept.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.007
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.014
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: Commentary
Teacher disagreement score0.013
Threshold uncertainty score0.057

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0070.014
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0080.034
Scholarly communication0.0080.013
Open science0.0020.003
Research integrity0.0040.009
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.073
GPT teacher head0.394
Teacher spread0.322 · 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreCommentary

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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Published2004
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