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Record W2949713492

Improving the management of intergovernmental relations: a project for the City of St. Albert government relations committee

2019· article· en· W2949713492 on OpenAlex

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueUVic’s Research and Learning Repository (University of Victoria) · 2019
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicLeadership, Human Resources, Global Affairs
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPublic administrationGovernment (linguistics)Political scienceManagementRegional scienceSociologyEconomics
DOInot available

Abstract

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Regional and intergovernmental structures and dynamics are changing at a local government level in Alberta because of legislated collaboration frameworks and growth management boards, starting in 2008 and enhanced in 2017. For the City of St. Albert, who is impacted by this, it is becoming increasingly challenging to approach intergovernmental matters in a coordinated manner, and to maintain existing service- levels related to intergovernmental administrative services. One option to improve the situation, could be the development of a Government Relations Council Committee, as has been done elsewhere in Western Canada.
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\nThe purpose of this report is to look at if a Government Relations Committee is a viable option for the City of St. Albert, by looking at the literature around municipal intergovernmental structures and practices in Western Canada, and by surveying the same municipalities.
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\nThe research question is: if the City of St. Albert were to pursue the development of a Government Relations Committee, what would be the framework for its development?

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.491
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.033
GPT teacher head0.280
Teacher spread0.246 · 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