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Record W2905091786 · doi:10.4324/9781315698212-9

What If There Were No Welfare State?

2015· book-chapter· en· W2905091786 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
John J. Pitney

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicSocial Policy and Reform Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsWelfare stateState (computer science)Computer sciencePolitical scienceLawAlgorithm

Abstract

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The welfare state provides benefits to Americans and enables the government to influence their behavior. Public policy experts apply it to all programs aimed at providing economic security and opportunity. Politicians can often win elections by simultaneously denouncing "welfare" and supporting social programs that benefit their constituents. Social welfare takes 50 percent of federal spending and 60 percent of state and local spending. Social security manuals refer to recipients as claimants and stress that the government owes claimants their pensions. Contemporary politics revolves around the welfare state. The goal of free public education is to give all Americans an equal chance to develop their talents. Greater growth and lower taxes would enable them to buy the goods and services that the welfare state now provides. The Canadian system allows greater cost control than the fragmented, decentralized American system. Community development policies, purportedly designed to improve poor people&s;s lives and put roofs over their heads, have often had the opposite effect.

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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)0.001
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: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.018
Threshold uncertainty score0.062

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0050.008
Scholarly communication0.0070.010
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0030.005
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0180.004

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 head0.061
GPT teacher head0.336
Teacher spread0.275 · 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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