Toward more democratic governance: modernizing the administrative state in Australasis, North America and the United Kingdom
Bibliographic record
Abstract
All over the world, countries are seeking to improve their gorvernance systems through political and administrative reforms, even those considered to be among the best governed and administered. These advanced democracies have rejected radical idelogies in favor of pragmatic centrist policies termed "The Third Way" that consolidates and builds upon well-established institutions and practices. But they are all moving into new territory. Australia's new doctrine of administrative responsibility seeks to hold all executives, poblic and private, accountable for any public harm occuring on their watch. Canada is enlarging its public policy making arena by involving citizens in its new policy research initiative. New Zealand is rethinking its Beveridge style welfare state to reduce its costs and give citizens a wider choice. The United Kingdom intends to put people first in public administration rather than official convenience and bureaucratic prespects. Finally, the United States attempts to prove that public goods and services are worthwhile and rewarding by more accurately measuring government performance through refined indicators. Together, these initiatives if successful promise to strengthen their democratic ethos.
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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) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| 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".