From Interests to Identity?: Opposition to North American Integration in the United States
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Abstract
There are two main wellsprings of anti-regionalism in the United States, both of which have been politically important over the last twenty years, but to varying degrees, and in varying ways. On one hand, there is an “interest” based opposition, which is constituted and driven by the anticipation of direct or indirect economic effects on regional or sectoral groups. This aspect of anti-regionalism in the US is consistent with conventional trade theory arguments about the formation of protectionist and anti-protectionist coalitions, and with the basic interest-group/pluralist model of politics more generally. On the other hand, there is an “identity” based opposition, which is constituted and driven by the anticipation of political or social effects on the national community writ large, including the attenuation of national sovereignty, democracy (popular sovereignty), cultural and social coherence. This latter current cannot be reconciled with conventional interest-based accounts, but it might be explicable by the kinds of “identity”-based interpretations advanced to describe regional politics in other parts of the world—notably Europe and East Asia. Though both interest-based and identity-based oppositions have played an important part in fuelling anti-regionalist pressures in the United States, the relative weight of identity-based opposition seems to have increased since NAFTA was ratified in 1993, and particularly after the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 teacher head, 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".