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Record W247591604

Should We Adopt a ‘What Works’ Approach in Law and Development?

2009· article· en· W247591604 on OpenAlexaff
Mariana Mota Prado

Bibliographic record

VenueSSRN Electronic Journal · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicHuman Rights and Development
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPanacea (medicine)Political scienceContext (archaeology)Set (abstract data type)Engineering ethicsLaw and developmentLaw and economicsLawSociologyComputer scienceDevelopment studiesEngineering
DOInot available

Abstract

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This short article is part of an online symposium in which law and development scholars were invited to respond to a set of questions posed by the conference organizer. In response to the question “what is the future of law and development?”, this article discusses different approaches in law and development studies. First, it suggests that the “context matters” approach is helpful in understanding the limitations of the “toolkit” approach, but while it helps us understand what went wrong in failed attempt to promote institutional reforms, it fails to provide guidance for future improvements. Second, the article discusses a “what works” approach, which has been suggested by some of the participants of the symposium as a fruitful way to overcome the limits of the existing approaches. While this approach seem indeed very promising, this article argues that there are some issues that need to be considered before we adopt it as a panacea for the shortcomings of law and development studies.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation 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: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.295
Threshold uncertainty score0.541

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.032
GPT teacher head0.287
Teacher spread0.255 · 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 teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
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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Citations3
Published2009
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