Chameleons, chimeras and shape-shifters: The production of neoliberal government in Ontario
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Drawing on data from a sixteen-month ethnography of Queen's Park, the provincial legislature of Ontario, this study analyses and critiques the evolving production of neoliberal government. The work of real social actors, primarily political workers and politicians, and their active ideological and material creation of government, is central to my focus on the neoliberal project of the Liberal government in Ontario. After charting the historical trajectory of neoliberalism internationally and in Canada, with a particular emphasis on the Third Way approach, I centre on the development of neoliberal political culture and restructuring in Ontario. Then provide an in-depth analysis of the production of the Liberal government, focusing on social and fiscal policies and policy-making, hegemonic gender and class politics, and political communications and spin. I conclude that, at one level, the Liberal chimera fused certain progressive practices and language with neoliberal policies and rhetoric. At the same time, significant and dangerous initiatives that interlocked the public and for-profit sector conceptually and materially were pursued. Thus, a more camouflaged form of deep neoliberal integration was produced.
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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 | 0.002 | 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 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 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".