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Record W4392123946 · doi:10.1177/27541258241233497

Seeing the city and democracy: A commentary

2024· article· en· W4392123946 on OpenAlexaff
Warren Magnusson

Bibliographic record

VenueDialogues in Urban Research · 2024
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicUrban Planning and Governance
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Victoria
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDemocracyPolitical scienceEnvironmental ethicsLawPhilosophyPolitics

Abstract

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When the idea of democracy went through its revival in the early modern period, it was eventually attached to the ideal of the state – a legal order that restrained popular enthusiasm and that could exist on any scale. The common assumption was that any viable political order had to be on a relatively large scale if it was to persist in the face of external challenges and deal effectively with modern problems. The implication was that it had to transcend the city. Beveridge and Koch challenge these modern assumptions, suggesting that urbanization re-establishes the connection between democracy and urban life. Although they focus on the stakes and conditions of a form of life that transcends both city and state, they still insist that we should see democracy ‘like a city’. Does seeing democracy like a city help us understand how such issues might be resolved democratically? I hope so, but my hopes are often sorely tested.

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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)0.016
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.058
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: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: Commentary
Teacher disagreement score0.084
Threshold uncertainty score0.220

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0160.058
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.002
Bibliometrics0.0020.004
Science and technology studies0.0180.045
Scholarly communication0.0130.023
Open science0.0090.009
Research integrity0.0650.095
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0090.003

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 head0.138
GPT teacher head0.415
Teacher spread0.277 · 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
GenreCommentary

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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