Modelling democracy: Revisiting legacies of democratic practices in current European documentaries
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article examines three European documentary films that contribute to discourses on democracy. By revisiting political processes of the past, O Palácio de Cidadãos ( The Palace of Citizens , Pires, 2024), Petra Kelly – Act Now! (Metz, 2024) and The Day Iceland Stood Still (Hogan, 2024) contextualize current concerns and comment on the state of democracy. The films try to make a case for civic engagement by providing historic examples of successful democratic practices beyond party politics. In response to populist histories of national pasts, these films offer affective counternarratives in which defining moments in the nation’s history and symbols of collective identities are tied to the functioning of democratic institutions and successful civic engagement. In paying attention to the films’ formal qualities, this article examines the films’ representation of democratic processes of the past, their affective narrative strategies and the connections that are established between the past and the current political landscape and contemporary audiences.
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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 | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| 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