Public value co-creation and sense of belonging: Evidence from local government annual reports
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study explores the annual reports of a sample of Australian and Canadian local governments (LG), focusing on the disclosures they make on citizen engagement actions, and their potential for public value co-creation, as well as their impact on citizens’ sense of belonging. To capture the creation of public value the study uses the public value creation mechanisms proposed by Virtanen and Jalonen (2024). Results indicate various cases where the LG Councils tend to encourage citizens’ involvement in public issues, mainly by providing feedback and suggestions related to projects and other initiatives, and to a lesser extent through actual co-design practices. Public value creation mechanisms are, however, evident in most of these cases. Also, there is reported evidence of citizens being valued and appreciated for their involvement which is consistent with LGs’ attempt to boost and increase the citizens’ sense of belonging.
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Full frame distilled prediction
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 | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 it