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Record W4409481341 · doi:10.1111/capa.70012

Organizing Government for the 21<sup>st</sup> Century

2025· article· en· W4409481341 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
James Mitchell

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Public Administration · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicPolitical Systems and Governance
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsGovernment (linguistics)Political scienceEconomic historyHistoryPhilosophyLinguistics

Abstract

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Abstract The last major reorganization of the federal government was undertaken by Prime Minister Campbell in 1993. Today, there is a new set of considerations that a new government must bear in mind to deal with a very different and much more uncertain world. This article responds to three of the articles in the December 2024 special edition of this journal by identifying ten of these new vectors, grouped under four inter‐related headings: 1) The global environment in which Canada finds itself; 2) Scientific and technological change; 3) Social and cultural change; and 4) Changes in the geopolitical environment. The article poses the question, what does the government need to be able to do, and how should it do it, to govern effectively today and tomorrow? Noting that intelligence and agility are two essential characteristics of effective government in the 21 st century, the article concludes with suggestions for changes to the organization of the federal government.

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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)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.964
Threshold uncertainty score0.953

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
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 head0.019
GPT teacher head0.275
Teacher spread0.256 · 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.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
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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