Integrity Versus Ideology in Automated Assessment
The Jobseeker Snapshot
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6416209 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Athanase Papadopoulos (0000-0003-2123-0406, School of Global Urban and Social Studies RMIT University Melbourne Victoria Australia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 418-427 |
| Publication date | 2025-03-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Journal of Social Issues (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0157-6321 • E-ISSN: 1839-4655 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/ajs4.70007 |
| OpenAlex | W4408249517 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 29 |
This article analyses the entanglement of political ideology and digitalisation in the Australian approach to online assessment of claims for income security, with a focus on job seeker classification. In the Australian social security system, the Job Seeker Classification Instrument (JSCI) has been used to screen and ‘score’ income security claimants, to estimate the likelihood of their remaining on income security payments 12 months after their initial claim and to direct claimants into different forms of employment services support. After two decades of use, the JSCI was ‘digitalised’ as the Job Seeker Snapshot. A socio‐technical analysis of this case of digital conversion illuminates how classification incorporates political‐ideological beliefs about the causes of long‐term unemployment and of the desirability of intervention. It identifies the implications of ideological interoperability for system integrity, both across and within systems, and underlines the importance of a historical perspective in studies of the digitalisation of welfare systems
Actuarial science · Economic growth · Economics · Ideology · Income Support · Interoperability · Job security · Payment · Political science · Politics · Project commissioning · Public economics · Public relations · Publishing · Snapshot (computer storage · Social security · Sociology · Unemployment · Welfare · Computer Science · Employment and Welfare Studies · Engineering · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Finance
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |