Award Citation: The Charles H. Levine Memorial Book Prize, 2022
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Abstract
Argentina by Virginia Oliveros, as the 2022 recipients of the Levine Award.Drawing on a novel theoretical policy arenas framework and comparative empirical analyses of Switzerland, Germany, Canada, and the United States, Ellermann offers a fascinating and insightful investigation into the diversity of immigration policy choices, and the causes of policy change or persistence over time and across jurisdictions.The book offers a novel theoretical, conceptual, and empirical contribution to the institutional analysis of the politics of immigration policy making: Spatial and temporal stability and change in liberal and restrictive immigration policies across policy arenas are the products of distinct types of political insulation with their distinctive policy logics that inform the capacity of policy makers.It is a superb example of an innovative theoretical argument used to understand a pressing public policy issue that pushes the public policy literature forward by emphasizing both actor preferences and institutional settings forming arenas to pursue them.A masterful achievement and a must-read for immigration scholars, political and policy scientists, institutionalists, and policy makers."How does patronage actually work in Argentina?"The issue of patronage has been widely studied, but how patronage works, has been rarely studied empirically.Drawing on laborious qualitative and quantitative analyses, Oliveros argues that patronage jobs are distributed to public sector employees in exchange for political services such as helping with campaigns and electoral support.In doing so, civil servants serve the success of their incumbent political masters.Introducing a theory of "self-enforcing patronage", she shows that patronage employment continues not only because or as long as clients comply with their patrons but also because patronage contracts are self-sustaining when they are distributed to supporters whose fates are tied to the fates of the politicians who hired them.The research design for studying such an alternative patronage mechanism entails a unique face-to-face survey, including list experiments, that has been fielded among mid-level public employees in three Argentinean municipalities.The book provides strong evidence for this mechanism of "self-enforcing patronage" and discusses the institutional features supporting this patronage, extending its relevance to other Latin American countries.
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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
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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.
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