Canada'S Ethnic Dilemma: Primordial Ethnonationalism In Quebec
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The seeming pervasiveness of secessionist movements around the world challenges conventional explanations of world politics at the end of the twentieth century. Indeed, many assumptions of Cold War politics are currently being repackaged in systemic level theories that suggest a rational, self-interested concept of political behavior of states and states' elites. Preoccupation with power capabilities at the system level systematically diverts attention from subnational political organizations. This is why ethnonationalism challenges conventional wisdom about the role of states and states' elites in world politics. Increasingly we are presented with examples of individuals and groups aliging their political behavior with that of their ethnic kin, even if they do not represent their class interests (Dogan and Pelassy 1990:63). In response to these trends, other analysts have offered an alternative view of ethnicity, one that stresses the concept as an internal expression of a basic group identity that persists through change, passed down from one generation to the next, binding the individual to a larger collectivity on the basis of their ineffable affective significance (Isaacs 1975). If instrumentalist arguments can be said to rely on a predominantly rational actor approach of the grievances that are supposed to generate ethnic solidarity, primordialism focuses on the psychological forces of ethnonationalism. Ethnic-based consciousness is far stronger than that created by political or economic interests-for example, in the case of Quebec, the preservation of the French-Canadian culture.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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".