Dynamics of salient normative status dimensions and issues in a changing international order
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Salient normative status dimensions, or the socially significant and widespread ideational bases on which states seek to be viewed positively in international societies, pattern inter-state relations and signal fluctuating values underpinning an international order. Their dynamics, however, are not well understood. This article introduces an analytical framework to study relations between issue salience and status dimension salience in an international society over time. To what extent have democracy, human rights, economic development, social development and fighting poverty, gender equality, and environmental protection gained, lost or retained salience – both as issues and as sources of states’ domestic-level social identifications? Empirically, the article analyzes trends in the salience of issues and of normative status dimensions in the six above-mentioned issue areas, using manually-coded content analysis and automated text analysis of United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) General Debate (GD) speeches between 1978 and 2023. Findings include that there has been an expansion of the characteristics, efforts and aspirations with which state representatives in this venue express their states’ positive social identities, adding new layers to the normative foundations underpinning international order.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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