Imaginaries of better administration
Renegotiating the relationship between citizens and digital public power
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5260481 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Terhi Esko (0000-0003-2387-079X, University of Helsinki, corresponding author), Riikka Koulu (0000-0002-1298-2406, University of Helsinki) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2023-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Big Data & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2053-9517 • E-ISSN: 2053-9517 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/20539517231164113 |
| OpenAlex | W4328024597 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 32 |
This article investigates future visions of digital public administration as they appear within a particular regulatory process that aims to enable automated decision-making (ADM) in public administration in Finland. By drawing on science and technology studies, public administration studies, and socio-legal studies we analyze law in the making and identify four imaginaries of public digital administration: understandable administration, self-monitoring administration, adaptive administration, and responsible administration. We argue that digital administration is seen from the perspective of public authorities serving their current needs of legitimizing existing automation practices. While technology is pictured as unproblematic, the citizen perspective is missing. We conclude that the absence of an in-depth understanding of the diverse needs of citizens raises the question whether the relationship between public power and citizens is becoming a one-way street despite of the public administration ideals that express values of citizen engagement
Political science · Professional administration · Public relations · Sociology · Vision · Computer Science · E-Government and Public Services · Information Systems Theories and Implementation · Law · Privacy, Security, and Data Protection · Public Administration
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Digitalisation of the Finnish asylum procedure
Complete the Test First” Prescreening Tests at the Margins of Digital Public Administration
Mapping the use of emerging technologies within the public sector across the EU
‘Drilling down’ and ‘breaking glass’ – Evolving notions of public service ‘quality’ in the Norwegian health data space
Steering society through algorithms
Algorithmic Governance
From Discretion to Calculation
Researching data discomfort
Outside the social making of interoperability
Digital transformation in public sector auditing
Managing e‐Government
Methodological challenges in qualitative content analysis
Algorithmic governance
The second wave of digital-era governance
Imagining the thinking machine
The qualitative content analysis process
Crafting Digital Transparency
‘Hypernudge’
Soft Ethics and the Governance of the Digital
Discourses on AI and Regulation of Automated Decision-Making
Energy ideals, visions, narratives, and rhetoric
Future imaginaries in the making and governing of digital technology
ICT, public values and transformative government
Platform governance for sustainable development
Containing the Atom
Socio-technical futures and the governance of innovation processes—An introduction to the special issue
Sociotechnical imaginaries
In search of the citizen in the datafication of public administration
The Nordic data imaginary
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 11 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |