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Federal Evolution: The Canadian Experience

2002· book-chapter· de· W81215195 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Ronald L. Watts

Bibliographic record

VenuePolitische Vierteljahresschrift. Sonderheft · 2002
Typebook-chapter
Languagede
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicPolitical Systems and Governance
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsOptimal distinctiveness theoryConstitutionPolitical scienceCharacter (mathematics)FederalismLawPublic administrationPolitics

Abstract

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The original Canadian federal constitution of 1867 was marked by the allocation of strong central powers enabling the federal government to override the provinces in certain circumstances. Despite its originally centralized character, more than a century and a quarter of pressures to accommodate linguistic duality and provincial regionalism have made Canada one of the world’s most decentralized federations, legislatively, administratively, and financially (Watts 1999a: 75–80). The Constitution Act of 1867 recognized the particular character of Quebec by including some asymmetry in the provisions relating to language, education and civil law as these applied to Quebec. But efforts within the past four decades to recognize the reality of Quebec’s distinctiveness by comprehensive constitutional revision that would further increase constitutional asymmetry have been highly controversial.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.007
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.246
Threshold uncertainty score0.875

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.007
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0030.011
Science and technology studies0.0410.014
Scholarly communication0.0110.004
Open science0.0020.005
Research integrity0.0030.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0200.001

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 head0.039
GPT teacher head0.273
Teacher spread0.234 · 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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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Published2002
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