Introduction – Le fédéralisme canadien : l’influence des institutions sur les acteurs clés de la vie politique et sociale (Introduction – Canadian Federalism: the Impact of Institutions on Key Political and Societal Actors)
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Abstract
French Abstract: Le federalisme canadien et son avenir : acteurs et institutions convie des juristes et des politologues a decoder le passe et l’avenir de la federation canadienne. Cette introduction retrace les visees et enseignements de cet ouvrage collectif, qui s’articule autour de quatre institutions-phares du systeme federal canadien: le bicameralisme, le pouvoir judiciaire en tant qu’arbitre du pacte federal, le systeme electoral et les partis politiques, ainsi que les relations intergouvernementales. Chaque institution est ensuite analysee a travers le prisme des acteurs cles affectes par la quete d’equilibre entre unite et diversite (provinces et territoires, minorites linguistiques, nations internes, peuples autochtones). Ces reflexions comparatives et critiques, tant retrospectives que prospectives, revelent les repercussions differenciees du federalisme pour ces divers acteurs. Elles mettent aussi en lumiere l’omnipresence de conflits, de negociation et de cooperation dans l’histoire federale du Canada, de meme que l’(in)adequation d’institutions creees au XIXe siecle pour repondre a la diversite sociale, culturelle, linguistique et nationale du Canada d’aujourd’hui. Ces constats pointent vers l’imperatif d’une solide creativite institutionnelle afin que l’experience federale puisse favoriser l’autonomie et la coexistence des groupes et des nations qui partagent le territoire – des lecons inspirantes pour un monde a la recherche de solutions institutionnelles concretes, a l’interieur et au-dela du traditionnel Etat-nation. English Abstract: Canadian Federalism and Its Future: Actors and Institutions invites historians, jurists and political scientists to decode the past and future of the Canadian federation. This introduction charts the aims and teachings of this collective work, which is organized around four central institutions of Canadian federalism: bicameralism, the judiciary as umpire of the federal deal, the electoral system and party politics, as well as intergovernmental relations. Each institution is analyzed through the lens of key actors impacted by the quest for balance between unity and diversity (provinces and territories, linguistic minorities, internal nations and Indigenous peoples). These comparative and critical reflections, both retrospective and prospective, reveal the differentiated repercussions of federalism for these actors. They also bring to light the omnipresence of conflicts, negotiation and cooperation in Canada’s federal history, as well as the (in)adequacy of institutions created in the 19th century to respond to Canada’s current social, cultural, linguistic and national diversity. These findings point to the imperative of solid institutional creativity so that federal experience can favor autonomy and coexistence for groups and nations sharing territory – thought-provoking lessons for a world in search of concrete institutional solutions, within and beyond the traditional nation-state. Note: document is in French. An English version of this introduction is also available on SSRN under the title Introduction – Canadian Federalism: the Impact of Institutions on Key Political and Societal Actors”.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.025 | 0.001 |
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".