Tracking Evolutions in CMHC Policy (1965-2006) Using Bob Jessop's Strategic Relational State Theory
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Abstract
Sociologist Bob Jessop theorizes that the actions of the capitalist state involve it weighting competing class interests, some of which are invariably afforded greater relevance depending on given political economic circumstances.The favorable selection of certain class interests at the expense of others is a process, moreover, that is subject to influence by changing historical blocs.This thesis examines how the state, using the CMHC as its conduit, has over time managed the often conflicting class interests associated with affordable housing policies.My central argument is that Canada's shift between the golden and globalization historical blocs saw housing policy shift away from Keynesian principles towards globalization, neoliberalism, and financialization.Whereas the golden era saw the state institute numerous publicly funded measures in an effort to solve housing issues, the globalization era compelled the state to withdraw its presence in housing, and more explicitly favor investors and the private sector generally.Dr. Jill Wigle for their terrific support and guidance.I would also like to express my gratitude to my friends and colleagues in the Political Economy program, especially those whom I grew close with over the course of these last two years.I want to thank all my family and friends in Nova Scotia, along with my partner and best friend Joelle
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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 | 0.002 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 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".