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Algorithmic Governance: Experimental Evidence on Citizens' and Public Administrators' Legitimacy Perceptions of Automated Decision‐Making

Public Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article investigates legitimacy perceptions of automated decision‐making (ADM) among public administrators and citizens. Views of public administrators, who exercise discretion over policy implementation, reflect readiness to integrate AI into decision‐making.
Jaakko Hillo, Isak Vento, Tero Erkkilä
wiley   +1 more source

Do street-level bureaucrats have discretionary power? Analysing the immigration detention policy implementation from the perspective of organizational power struggles in Belgian ‘closed centres'

Political Research Exchange
‘Discretionary power' suffers from conceptual ambiguity. Is it an attribute of individual street-level bureaucrats, or an organizational prerogative?
Andrew Crosby
doaj   +1 more source

Central‐local tensions in the decentralization of social policies: Street‐level bureaucrats and social practices in the Netherlands

, 2021
Erik Jansen, Jana Javornik, Annica Brummel, Mara A. Yerkes   +3 more
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From Discretion to Calculation: How Analog Automation Shaped Digitalization of Finnish Social Assistance

Public Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Automation in public administration is often seen as a recent, purely digital phenomenon that transforms decision‐making and governance. This article challenges that view by elucidating a historical continuum in the automation of administrative decision‐making.
Aleksander Heikkinen, Minna van Gerven, Riikka Koulu   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Faculty as street-level bureaucrats: discretionary decision-making in the era of generative AI

Frontiers in Education
IntroductionThis study examines how university faculty members at an internationalized higher education institution in the UAE navigate the challenges of generative artificial intelligence (Gen-AI) plagiarism through the theoretical lens of Michael ...
Rami Alsharefeen, Rami Alsharefeen
doaj   +1 more source

How Cohesive is the Chinese Bureaucracy? A Case Study of Street‐level Bureaucrats in China [PDF]

, 2017
Xiaowei Zang
openalex   +1 more source

Fighting Corruption Through Accountability? A Survey Experiment 感覺課責能否抑制貪腐?來自調查實驗的證據

Public Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Democratic Weberian bureaucracy is facing great challenges upholding public values as we see turbulent party politics disrupt merit‐based systems, causing bureaucrats' goal displacement and conflicting compliance under multiple accountability mechanisms.
Ming‐feng Kuo, Hsini Huang
wiley   +1 more source

Rethinking Reproductive Governance: What Can Public Administration on the Island of Ireland Learn From Abortion Accompaniment?

Public Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The recent decriminalization of abortion marked a crucial step toward improved reproductive care on the island of Ireland. However, this has not translated into fully accessible abortion provision—barriers, including inaccessible services, persist, leaving gaps that public administration has not formally addressed. In response, informal actors,
Anna Theresa Schmid
wiley   +1 more source

Qui sont les « agents de terrain » des agences de l’eau ?

Développement Durable et Territoires
In this article, we explore a “fuzzy” job, that of intervention officer for the Water Agencies. Real Street-level bureaucrats, these agents do not merely process subsidy applications.
Ophélie Schnitzler, François Destandau
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Navigating the Algorithmic State: Public Values and Citizens' Preferences of AI‐Driven Public Service Delivery

Public Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As the public sector increasingly adopts AI‐powered automated decision systems (ADS), understanding how citizens experience and value ADS use in public decision‐making is both normatively and practically important. Therefore, we examine and compare the effects of seven attributes of public values on citizens' support for ADS adoption in two ...
Guimin Zheng, Heewon Lee, Wenhui Li, Yixin Liu, Tian Tang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source