A Quiet Evolution: the emergence of Indigenous-local intergovernmental partnerships in Canada: Povos indígenas e Governos Locais no Canadá
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In the book reviewed, Alcantara and Nelles seek to understand what types of cooperative relationship exist between indigenous peoples and local governments in Canada and which factors explain their emergence. Initially, they propose a theoretical framework capable of providing a model of analysis for the problem raised. Following this, for fieldwork and case studies, the researchers selected four small-town neighboring communities - the Batchewana First Nation and Garden River First Nation and the city of Sault Ste Marie; the Teslin Tinglit Council and the city of Teslin; Champagne and Aishihik First Nations and the city of Haines Junction; Viger First Nation Malecite and Les Basques Regional Municipality - in three provinces - Yukon Territory, Québec and Ontario. In these locations, they interviewed thirty civil servants, as well as indigenous leaders and activists, to build a typology of intergovernmental relations between indigenous peoples and local governments and to present a set of theoretical and empirically informed factors.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.024 | 0.016 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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".