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Record W4413912218 · doi:10.1080/09592296.2025.2495448

‘A Direct, Give-and-Take’: The Personal Diplomacy of Herbert Hoover

2025· article· en· W4413912218 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Tizoc Chavez

Bibliographic record

VenueDiplomacy and Statecraft · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicAcademic Freedom and Politics
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDiplomacyPolitical sciencePolitical economySociologyLawPolitics

Abstract

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In 1929, Herbert Hoover welcomed Ramsay MacDonald to the United States (the first British prime minister to visit), and two years later, in 1931, he welcomed Pierre Laval (the second French premier ever to visit). Historians have downplayed these visits as inconsequential, but at the time, they were seen as major events that were political and personal successes for the leaders involved. Furthermore, they provide a new perspective on Hoover’s foreign policy leadership. In the second half of the twentieth century, leader-to-leader diplomacy became a common and expected part of the US presidency, but it was unusual in Hoover’s time. Thus, he was a forerunner of the practice, experimenting with a new form of diplomacy that would become a key part of how future American presidents engaged the world.

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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)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.014
Threshold uncertainty score0.028

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0120.010
Scholarly communication0.0050.004
Open science0.0000.002
Research integrity0.0010.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.001

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 head0.012
GPT teacher head0.314
Teacher spread0.302 · 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 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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