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Record W2802202780 · doi:10.22215/etd/2016-11340

China's Quest for a Modern Constitutional Polity

2016· dissertation· en· W2802202780 on OpenAlexaff
Michael To

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicChina's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance
Canadian institutionsCarleton University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPolityConstitutionalismUnderdevelopmentPolitical scienceConstitutionFraming (construction)PoliticsChinaArgument (complex analysis)EmancipationPolitical economyLaw and economicsLawSociologyDemocracy

Abstract

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China's quest for a modern constitutional polity in the past one hundred years is still an unfinished business.It is this research's argument that for China to become a modern polity, it needs further social and political development, so that the Chinese people will have a stake in its polity and its constitutional framing.The research question of this thesis asks what lessons can we learn to support this argument from the analyses of the divergence/convergence between constitutional intents and the social and political needs of the past one hundred years.The key lessons learned in support of the research argument are as follows:-The traditional Chinese response to scarcity caused its underdevelopment.Underdevelopment in modern time is not an option as it has serious consequences.-Not actively competing in the world was the ultimate source of China's past decays.-Functional/institutional designs harming political participation can cause instability.-Ideology driven social restructuring can be disastrous due to its partiality.-State directed constitutional framing can hardly be expected to produce constitutionalism.-Constitutionalism requires social forces putting demands on the state.-Constitutionalism must be supported by statutes and political reforms.-The origin of a constitutional idea does not matter as long as it is truly needed in China.The research result makes clear what the state needs to do in its next phase of development.The current leaders' recognition of the need to put state power under the constitution is a sign of new convergence towards people's demand for rights, rule of law and opposition to corruption and abuse of power.

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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)0.002
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: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.045
Threshold uncertainty score0.105

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0030.013
Scholarly communication0.0040.003
Open science0.0000.002
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

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 head0.013
GPT teacher head0.327
Teacher spread0.314 · 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
GenreOther

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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