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- de Fine Licht, Karl, 1979, et al.
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Artificial intelligence, transparency, and public decision-making Why explanations are key when trying to produce perceived legitimacy
- 2020
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In: Ai & Society. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0951-5666 .- 1435-5655. ; 35, s. 917-926
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The increasing use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for making decisions in public affairs has sparked a lively debate on the benefits and potential harms of self-learning technologies, ranging from the hopes of fully informed and objectively taken decisions to fear for the destruction of mankind. To prevent the negative outcomes and to achieve accountable systems, many have argued that we need to open up the "black box" of AI decision-making and make it more transparent. Whereas this debate has primarily focused on how transparency can secure high-quality, fair, and reliable decisions, far less attention has been devoted to the role of transparency when it comes to how the general public come to perceive AI decision-making as legitimate and worthy of acceptance. Since relying on coercion is not only normatively problematic but also costly and highly inefficient, perceived legitimacy is fundamental to the democratic system. This paper discusses how transparency in and about AI decision-making can affect the public's perception of the legitimacy of decisions and decision-makers and produce a framework for analyzing these questions. We argue that a limited form of transparency that focuses on providing justifications for decisions has the potential to provide sufficient ground for perceived legitimacy without producing the harms full transparency would bring.
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- Blombäck, Sofie, 1982, et al.
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Same Considerations, Different Decisions: Motivations for Split-ticket Voting among Swedish Feminist Initiative Supporters
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In: Scandinavian Political Studies. - : Wiley. - 0080-6757 .- 1467-9477. ; 40:1, s. 61-81
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article explores why supporters of small, non-established parties choose to vote for different parties in the elections to the European Parliament (EP) and elections to the national parliament. It uses individual-level data with open-ended questions from an online survey on supporters of Feminist Initiative (Fi) – a comparatively small and new Swedish feminist party – to map voters’ own motivations for split-ticket voting in the 2014 elections. Contrary to expectations based on second-order election theory, it is found that voters ticket-split in both directions: there are those voting for Fi in the EP election but not in the national election, and those voting for Fi in the national election but not in the EP election. These voters take the same types of considerations into account but nevertheless end up making opposite voting decisions. Voters clearly distinguish between the two levels – for example, by prioritizing different issues.
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- De Fine Licht, Jenny, 1982, et al.
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Feministiskt initiativs sympatisörer
- 2015
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In: Annika Bergström, Bengt Johansson, Henrik Oscarsson & Maria Oskarson (red) Fragment.. - Göteborg : SOM-institutet. - 9789189673328 ; , s. 387-397
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- Bauhr, Monika, 1973, et al.
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Lights on the shadows of public procurement. Transparency as an antidote to corruption
- 2020
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In: Governance. - : Wiley. - 1468-0491 .- 0952-1895. ; 33:3, s. 495-523
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The increased focus on marketizing mechanisms and contracting-out operations following the New Public Management reform agenda has sparked a debate on whether the close interactions between public and private actors might drive corruption in the public sector. The main response to those worries has been increased transparency, but so far empirical evidence of its efficiency remains scant and mixed. This article argues that the beneficial effects of transparency on corruption are contingent on type of transparency, and in particular, who the intended receiver of the information is. Drawing on newly collected data of more than 3.5 million government contracts between 2006 and 2015, the analysis shows that overall tender transparency reduces corruption risks substantially, yet that the effect is largely driven by ex ante transparency, that is, transparency that allows for horizontal monitoring by insiders in the bidding process.
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- Broms, Rasmus, 1984, et al.
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Preparing political science students for a non-academic career: Experiences from a novel course module
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In: Politics. - : SAGE Publications. - 0263-3957 .- 1467-9256. ; 39:4, s. 514-526
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- © The Author(s) 2019. Higher education is increasingly expected not only to provide students with disciplinary knowledge and skills but also to prepare them for a future career. As political science is a diverse discipline and does not train students for a certain profession, its students often feel uncertain of the career paths available to them and how their expertise can be used in a future career. In this article, we present and discuss the course ‘The Professional Political Scientist’, given at the bachelor’s level at the Department of Political Science at University of Gothenburg, Sweden, which is an attempt to fill this gap. We present the preparatory work, the design, the pedagogy behind the themes and exercises included in the curriculum, as well as the experiences and evaluations of the first three rounds of the course. Finally, we provide suggestions for teachers interested in developing similar courses.
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