Algorithms and Decision-Making in the Public Sector
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5826323 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Karen Levy (0000-0002-0968-9401, Cornell University), Kyla Chasalow (0000-0002-6881-2019, Cornell University), Riley (0000-0001-6712-6976, Cornell University) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 309-334 |
| Publication date | 2021-07-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annual Review of Law and Social Science (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1550-3585 • E-ISSN: 1550-3631 |
| Publisher | Annual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev-lawsocsci-041221-023808 |
| OpenAlex | W3186947646 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 30 |
| References cited | 78 |
This article surveys the use of algorithmic systems to support decision-making in the public sector. Governments adopt, procure, and use algorithmic systems to support their functions within several contexts -- including criminal justice, education, and benefits provision -- with important consequences for accountability, privacy, social inequity, and public participation in decision-making. We explore the social implications of municipal algorithmic systems across a variety of stages, including problem formulation, technology acquisition, deployment, and evaluation. We highlight several open questions that require further empirical research
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Exceptions in the Algorithmic Age
When AI starts hiring humans
Looking towards an automated future
Blinding to Circumvent Human Biases
The importance of effectiveness versus transparency and stakeholder involvement in citizens’ perception of public sector algorithms
Implementing AI in the public sector
The access control double bind
What shapes our attitudes towards algorithms in urban governance? The role of perceived friendliness and controllability of the city, and human-algorithm cooperation
The Emerging Big Data Ecosystem and Digital Transformation of Poverty Governance in China
The last labour frontier
Algorithmic Governance and the Banality of Evil
Digital Legitimation and Compensation
Unpacking social scoring systems and their impact on fairness and digital dignity
Legitimacy practices, algorithms, and the new bureaucratic quantification
Automating administrative burden in algorithmic criminal record expungement
Algorithmic accountability in U.S. cities
Data infrastructures, international organizations, and the politics of amendment
Artificial intelligence, algorithms, and social inequality
Regulating Government AI and the Challenge of Sociotechnical Design
Hyper-Collection
The Sociology of Technical Choices in Predictive AI
Transparency and accountability in digital public services
Bridging the gap
Two tales about the power of algorithms in online environments
Algorithms in the public sector. Why context matters
Digital government inclusion
The new global public
Agriculture by Algorithm
Trusting by Numbers
The Moral Affordances of Construing People as Cases
How Our Days Became Numbered
Overcoming Algorithm Aversion
Fairness and Abstraction in Sociotechnical Systems
Statistical Modeling
Algorithmic Fairness
Does automation bias decision-making?
Big Data's Disparate Impact
Discrimination in the Age of Algorithms
Prediction Policy Problems
Clinical Versus Actuarial Judgment
Prediction and explanation in social systems
The Mythos of Model Interpretability
Measuring the predictability of life outcomes with a scientific mass collaboration
Dissecting racial bias in an algorithm used to manage the health of populations
An Engine, Not a Camera
The Black Box Society
Impact of risk assessment on judges’ fairness in sentencing relatively poor defendants
The Ideological Effects of Actuarial Practices
Opening the government’s black boxes
The Poverty of Privacy Rights
Artificial Intelligence Policy Innovations at the Canadian Federal Government
Tool for Surveillance or Spotlight on Inequality? Big Data and the Law
Civic hacking as data activism and advocacy
Symposium
Disentangling substantiation
Transparency by Conformity
From Street‐Level to System‐Level Bureaucracies
Smart Technology and the Emergence of Algorithmic Bureaucracy
Approaches to Social Research
Algorithmic regulation
Automating Inequality
Thinking critically about and researching algorithms
Governing Algorithms
Municipal surveillance regulation and algorithmic accountability
When open data is a Trojan Horse
How the machine 'thinks
How Our Days Became Numbered
Registration and Recognition. Documenting the Person in World History
Seeing Like a State
Introduction
Technologies of Crime Prediction
Rankings and Reactivity
| Unique citing works | 30 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 7,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 28 |