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Record W3205987231 · doi:10.29173/cons29406

Political Capital

2020· article· en· W3205987231 on OpenAlexaffvenue
Benjamin D.T. Smith

Bibliographic record

VenueConstellations · 2020
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicElectoral Systems and Political Participation
Canadian institutionsConcordia University of Edmonton
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPresidencyPoliticsForeign policyRestructuringCapital (architecture)Political economyPolitical capitalPolitical scienceLawSociologyHistory

Abstract

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In overlooking Nixon’s domestic policy agenda, many Americans find themselves lost in a fragmented understanding of a presidency that brought about some of the most significant changes in American history. Writings about President Nixon tend to focus on the controversies revolving around Watergate (as it is one of the most exciting and dramatic elements in American history), and his foreign policy relations. As time drifts further away from Watergate, many scholars are restructuring their focus and developing a “beyond Watergate” approach to understanding the Nixon presidency. By looking beyond Watergate, scholars are finding a Nixon domestic policy that left lasting impacts on three key domestic issues: civil rights, environmental protection, and social welfare. Still, at the heart of this domestic policy lies the divisive presidency of Richard Nixon, which brings with it divided approaches. Since his resignation in 1974, most scholars argue that Nixon’s domestic policy was designed to maximize his political capital. However, the means by which Nixon gained this capital, as well as its use, is a point of ambiguity among scholars.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.006
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.106
Threshold uncertainty score0.354

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.006
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0030.002
Scholarly communication0.0080.003
Open science0.0010.004
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.1060.015

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 head0.092
GPT teacher head0.363
Teacher spread0.272 · 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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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