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Record W2952318418 · doi:10.24908/fede.v19i1.10833

Legitimizing the De Facto Decentralized Afghan Government

2018· article· en· W2952318418 on OpenAlexaffvenue
Miles James Smith

Bibliographic record

VenueFederalism-E · 2018
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicPolitics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East
Canadian institutionsRoyal Military College of Canada
Fundersnot available
KeywordsUnitary stateFederalismSovereigntyAfghanState (computer science)Political sciencePublic administrationGovernment (linguistics)ConstitutionCentral governmentLegislationPolitical economyLawSociologyLocal governmentPolitics

Abstract

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Following the dissolution of the Taliban administration in 2001, the Bonn Agreement laid a roadmap for the reconstruction of the Afghan state. The product of this agreement was the 2004 constitution that established Afghanistan as a unitary republic. The unitary state is not a viable model for Afghanistan, which has never in its history been ruled by a centralized government. There has been a significant academic debate surrounding federalism as a solution to this problem, however there is a lack of stability in the periphery of the state to support even this. Further, a significant portion of the debate misidentifies federalism as a proposed solution to an overstated ethnic problem. To build government control, recognizing and legitimizing the valuable role that tribal and strongman provincial administrations fill in Afghanistan is the correct solution for the ongoing state-building project in the country. By formally relinquishing aspects of sovereignty such as the monopoly on violence and limited legislation, Afghanistan’s periphery administrations will be better able to exert some degree of governmental control to facilitate progress until the state can handle deeper reform.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

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)0.001
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: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.990
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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 head0.027
GPT teacher head0.331
Teacher spread0.304 · 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 teacher head, not a consensus.

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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Published2018
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