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Introduction: Varieties of Austerity

2021· book-chapter· en· W4205554402 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Heather Whiteside, Stephen McBride, Bryan Evans

Bibliographic record

VenuePolicy Press eBooks · 2021
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicSocial Policy and Reform Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAusterityTypologyWelfare stateVariety (cybernetics)SituatedPoliticsPolitical economyCapitalismPolitical scienceDemocracySociology

Abstract

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This introductory chapter considers the history and extent of austerity measures used globally since 2008. It examines the common thread of these austerity measures, before turning to explore the issue of how much variety there has been within this common framework. To assist with this, the chapter briefly presents a selection of national cases — Canada, Denmark, Ireland, and Spain. These countries are differently situated within the main typologies of comparative public policy and political economy that categorize countries by type of welfare state and variety of capitalism. The comparative political economy of welfare states and types of economy has yielded two major classification systems. The most famous welfare state typology identified three types — liberal, social democratic, and conservative/corporatist — and advanced explanations for their development and characteristics. The chapter considers how these nations fit into these typologies and how they present varieties of austerity.

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
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: Editorial · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.030
Threshold uncertainty score0.101

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.003
Science and technology studies0.0020.003
Scholarly communication0.0040.003
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0010.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0300.005

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 head0.076
GPT teacher head0.341
Teacher spread0.265 · 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
GenreEditorial

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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