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Record W4414515548 · doi:10.1017/s0008423925100735

Six Pipelines: Invigorating Race in Canadian Political Science

2025· article· en· W4414515548 on OpenAlexaffabout
Seon Yuzyk

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Journal of Political Science · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicPolitical Science Research and Education
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRace (biology)Diversity (politics)PoliticsRacismReading (process)Curriculum

Abstract

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Abstract This study examines the absence and presence of race- and anti-Black-related issues in Canadian political science. This research employs a six-pronged mixed methods approach, combining quantitative data analysis with qualitative examinations of race debates within the discipline. It investigates introductory textbooks, Black Studies programs, graduate courses, comprehensive examination reading lists, the Canadian Journal of Political Science and academic awards. The findings reveal that Canadianists are not exempt from the effects of racism. The results highlight significant challenges in decolonizing Canadian political science, such as incorporating race into university curriculum and providing diversity training for editorial committees at major academic presses. This study underscores the pervasive reach of racism and anti-Blackness in the country and calls for adopting relational approaches to studying Black people in Canada. It contributes to the growing discourse on anti-Blackness, addressing crucial gaps in the discipline.

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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)0.027
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.053
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.963
Threshold uncertainty score0.791

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0270.053
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0070.008
Science and technology studies0.0370.018
Scholarly communication0.0120.004
Open science0.0020.010
Research integrity0.0020.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.000

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 head0.032
GPT teacher head0.407
Teacher spread0.375 · 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.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
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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Published2025
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