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Record W4417455886 · doi:10.4324/9781003674481-5

Political Failures at Work

2025· book-chapter· en· W4417455886 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Éliane Brault, James Smith Allen

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicFrench Historical and Cultural Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCabinet (room)RivalryPoliticsNazismPower (physics)GermanUnificationTheme (computing)

Abstract

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In the longest and most detailed chapter in the book, Brault examines the efforts of France&s;s failed leadership during the occupation in 1940, from the establishment of the Vichy Regime in July to its first major cabinet shuffle in December. The defeatists now in power actively sought to collaborate with the Nazis, the principal theme in Brault&s;s account of ineptitude and infighting among factional interests on both sides. The Nazis’ disdain for their apparent French partners in the occupation did not deter the fruitless efforts of the enfeebled 84-year-old Marshall Philippe Pétain. His protective inner circle worked in concert with elements of the fascistic Comité Secret d&s;Action Révolutionnaire (CSAR) to promote their own agenda. After discussing the self-serving activities of the Nazi Party&s;s National Socialist Welfare organization in Paris, Brault details the rivalry between the Vichy Minister of the Interior Marcel Peyrouton and the Regime&s;s Vice President of Pétain&s;s cabinet Pierre Laval that led to the latter&s;s dismissal. The result, according to Brault, was Vichy&s;s total subservience to German political authorities.

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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)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.006
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: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.035
Threshold uncertainty score0.116

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.006
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.003
Science and technology studies0.0180.029
Scholarly communication0.0130.005
Open science0.0010.008
Research integrity0.0030.006
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0350.007

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 head0.036
GPT teacher head0.194
Teacher spread0.158 · 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
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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