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Privatizing Collective Public Goods: a Case Study of Street Cleaning in Johannesburg, South Africa

2007· article· en· W747822883 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Mélanie Samson

Bibliographic record

VenueStudies in Political Economy · 2007
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicHousing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersSociety for Analytical Chemists of Pittsburgh
KeywordsPublic goodBusinessPolitical scienceEconomic growthPublic administrationPolitical economyEconomySociologyEconomicsNeoclassical economics

Abstract

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Where Ruckert’s article considers the uneven effects of hegemonic strategies, Melanie Samson examines the partial and fragmented effects of privatization and the spatialization of social policy. Her study “Privatizing Collective Public Goods: A Case Study of Street Cleaning in Johannesburg, South Africa” examines how the privatization of street cleaning in Johannesburg took different and uneven forms, and the ways in which that unevenness served to reinscribe gender, race, and class hierarchies. In exploring and exposing the varied experiences of privatization, Samson’s article also provides insight into how state restructuring can engender new divisions such as, in her context, between workers and citizens.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.685
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.109
GPT teacher head0.301
Teacher spread0.191 · 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 teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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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Citations19
Published2007
Admission routes1
Has abstractyes

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