More than Stakeholders: Reforming State-Voluntary Sector Relations
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Canadian governments are not particularly well prepared to shift from the tradition of hierarchical government to more collaborative governance. This article outlines four major institutional reforms that are required to build the kind of relationships between the state and the voluntary sector that are necessary to support collaborative governance. The first involves enabling the voluntary sector to fulfil its distinctive roles as governing partner and as builder of community and active citizenship. Second, effective governance involves engaging voluntary organizations in genuine and meaningful dialogue about public policy problems and solutions. Third, elasticizing the means and practices of accountability that are legacies of command-and-control government is essential to supporting the requisite flexibility and responsiveness of a governance approach. Finally, embodying horizontal management of policy issues across departments and across governments needs to be addressed with new governing machinery, not merely through ad hoc processes.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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 it