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Record W4399040406 · doi:10.29173/mlj1041

Partisan Advertising by Incumbent Governments

2008· article· en· W4399040406 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Bryan P. Schwartz, Andrew R. Buck

Bibliographic record

VenueManitoba Law Journal · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicSocial Media and Politics
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAdvertisingBusinessPolitical science

Abstract

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T he power of incumbency offers up a number of vehicles for government messages to the electorate.In Manitoba, as an example, there is an entire branch of the public sector devoted to communication.! In addition to the public service, incumbents can make use of news releases, official government documents like newsletters and glossy periodicals, the government's website and other highly visible media like billboards, bus advertisements and bulk mail outs.The value derived from the exposure of incumbency and patronage further tips the communication balance away from challengers and toward the governing party.As Richard Briffault explains, these "built . . .in" advantages include:[Tlhe free media attention he gets during his term in office, to the opportunity to provide constituency service, to the fact that the incumbent was popular enough to win the last election.These advantages contribute to, and are typically reinforced by, the incumbent's superior ability to raise money.2Simply put, the government has a massive advantage over its rivals when it comes to getting the word out.Why should exclusive use of the public purse for partisan communication be added to this list?Policy, jurisprudence and basic electoral fairness suggest reform should be undertaken to address the incumbent-challenger communications imbalance.This section of the paper proposes two separate solutions to the problem: fIrst, a total ban on all publicly funded partisan government communication; and second, a comprehensive Manitoba Civil Service Commission, "Communications Services Manitoba Division '\ Manitoba Civil Service Commission online: <http://www.gov.mb.ca/csc/orientman/comm unicat.html>.The division's

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.654
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0020.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.029
GPT teacher head0.291
Teacher spread0.261 · 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 teacher head, not a consensus.

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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