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Record W2356638833

Nonprofits and Political Activity: Lessons from England and Canada

2014· article· en· W2356638833 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Ellen P. Aprill

Bibliographic record

VenueSSRN Electronic Journal · 2014
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBusiness, Management and Accounting
TopicPolitical Influence and Corporate Strategies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCampaign financePoliticsPolitical scienceContext (archaeology)Intervention (counseling)Public administrationPolitical economyLawSociology
DOInot available

Abstract

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In the recent debate about nonprofit organizations and political activity, little attention has been paid to what we can learn from the approach of other countries. This piece compares U.S. rules with those of Canada and England, in the context of both their nonprofit rules applicable to political activity and their campaign finance laws. As the piece explains, England and Canada, like the U.S., prohibit direct or indirect campaign intervention by charities. These countries, however, differ from the U.S. and each other in the amount of lobbying and other non-campaign political engagement permitted by charities. England and Canada do not limit noncharitable nonprofits from engaging in any type of political activity under their nonprofit or tax laws. Both countries, however, regulate elections and campaign finance in general more stringently than does the U.S.

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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)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.009
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.119
Threshold uncertainty score0.862

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.009
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.006
Science and technology studies0.0130.006
Scholarly communication0.0090.004
Open science0.0020.004
Research integrity0.0030.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0080.000

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 head0.012
GPT teacher head0.225
Teacher spread0.213 · 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 designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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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