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Canada as a Global Social Policy Actor

2025· book-chapter· en· W4409679410 on OpenAlexaffabout
Laura Macdonald

Bibliographic record

VenueOxford University Press eBooks · 2025
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicSocial Policy and Reform Studies
Canadian institutionsCarleton University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPolitical science

Abstract

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Abstract The role of Canada as a global social policy actor has been underexamined. Nevertheless, in different time periods, Canada has played an important role in some areas of global social policy formulation and implementation. After a brief discussion of the nature of global social policy, the chapter considers Canada’s role as a global social policy actor in three different thematic areas: in the creation of the postwar international financial system and the promotion of structural adjustment policies in the Global South starting in the 1980s; in global health governance, with a focus on the HIV-AIDS crisis of the late 1980s, and the recent COVID-19 pandemic; and in the adoption of Feminist International Assistance Policy (FIAP) in 2017. The chapter argues that Canada’s record is ambiguous, reflecting a mix of security, economic, and human rights objectives, and that the country’s policies have too often reflected instrumentalist and sometimes self-serving approaches compatible with liberal approaches to social policy, instead of more transformational objectives.

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.124
Threshold uncertainty score0.897

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.004
Science and technology studies0.0110.008
Scholarly communication0.0080.002
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0020.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0190.001

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 head0.024
GPT teacher head0.271
Teacher spread0.247 · 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 designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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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Published2025
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