Citizen participation and public policy in rural development : the rural development association movement in Newfoundland and Labrador
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis is a study of the rural development association movement in Newfoundland and Labrador from its roots in the late 1961)'s through to the late I980's.To provide an overall context it first examines the patterns of underdevelopment in both the pre-Confederation and post Confederation periods to determine the long-term historical factors and the immediate conditions from which the movement emerged.The movement is then examined in terms o f its immediate origins, composition, ideology, activities and relationship to the state.Attention is drawn to the complex of class relations, in particular the role o f the petit-bourgeoisie new class elements that were expanded during the industrialization and modernization period in which the movement emerged.The movement's career is traced from a collection o f organizations mobilized to resist the state development policies through a period o f state supported expansion and growth to its eventual phase o f institutionalization.The movement's composition and ideology is addressed in terms o f how these interrelationships contributed to the movement's eventual co-option.The movement's relationship to the state, while expressed in terms o f a partnership, is seen to be for all intents and purposes a dependency relationship; whereby the movement acts as an administrator o f state programs and policies designed mainly to temporarily alleviate chronic unemployment rather than contribute to a comprehensive program of rural development.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 teacher head, 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".