Local economic development and municipal government : evolving roles and practices
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The interplay between the technological, economic and socio-institutional spheres has wrought three significant changes for government in contemporary society; globalisation, neoliberal economic ideology, and new public management (NPM). Rather than 'ad hoc' events, Long Wave Theory particularly Perez's (1988; 2002) techno-economic paradigm demonstrates that such changes are part of a centuries-old pattern of interaction and accommodation in capitalist societies. Contrary to claims that this sequence of events will diminish government she predicted that it would reinvent itself into a more participatory institution. Weiss' (1998: 209) theory on the "transformative capacity" of government and concepts of partnerships and governance seem to bear this out, and render partnerships the modern tool of transformation. Using three rural Ontario communities as case studies, a larger body of secondary data, and a post-positivist research paradigm, this thesis looks at change and transformative capacity at the rural municipal level in Ontario. It examines how the above changes challenged rural municipal viability and community sustainability, and how its own responses have transformed its roles, the nature of rural governing and economic development process and practice, and warrant a revision of traditional conceptions of Canadian Municipal government, community and rural development theory and practice.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.018 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| 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".