Workshop 6: Ethical Leadership in the Context of Globalization The New Public Management and Democracy in Canada: A Recipe for Scandal?
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The February 2006 national election in Canada was driven by two political scandals more than by a positive sense of what needs to be accomplished in Canada. These two scandals are the events that led to the resignation of David Dingwall as President of the Royal Canadian Mint and the Sponsorship Program scandal that lead to the Gomery Inquiry. This paper examines these two scandals, both financial in nature, to determine if they may have been driven by a shift from traditional democratic, public-sector values to the market-based, private-sector values of the New Public Management. In these specific cases it would appear that the NPM played little role in these scandals, although the model of contracting out for government services bears some responsibility for the Sponsorship scandal. Ultimately this paper examines one piece in a complex web that has led to a decline in popular support for governmental institutions throughout Canada. The deeper question is, therefore, “Is the value conflict between NPM and traditional public sector values part of the ongoing legitimacy crisis that has led to calls for democratic reform throughout Canada?” Please do not cite or quote this conference paper without explicit permission from the author. 2 THE NEW PUBLIC MANAGEMENT AND DEMOCRACY
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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 | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 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".