DEMOCRACY IN OUR HEMISPHERE AND THE ROLE OF THE ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The fiftieth anniversary of the American Declaration of the Rights and Duties of Man provides an appropriate opportunity to survey the state of democracy in our hemisphere and the role of the Organization of American States. Beginning in the mid 1980’s important progress in the establishment or restoration of democracy was made in a number of the Member States of the OAS, and the region today exhibits the majority of countries having completed the “transition” to democracy. At the same time many countries are still faced today with the challenge of the “consolidation” of democracy. The OAS has responded to this formidable challenge by adopting a collective and collaborative approach. Important amendments were made to the OAS Charter in order to implement the organization’s consensus regarding its obligation to preserve and uphold democracy in the region. Likewise, and as complements to the amendments, the OAS has also developed new mechanisms, such as the Unit for the Promotion of Democracy, policies such as the Inter-American Program to Combat Poverty and instruments like the Inter-American Convention Against Corruption, in order to contribute to the longer-term support of the consolidation of democracy. The continued viability of the Organization will depend on its ability to assimilate the changes occurring in the hemisphere as it evolves and to adapt its role to the emerging needs of the Member States, all while playing to its comparative advantage as the regional political forum of the Americas.
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.016 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 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; 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".