The stealth legitimization of a controversial policy tool: Statistical profiling in French Public Employment Service

IF 3.2 2区 社会学 Q1 LAW Regulation & Governance Pub Date : 2023-06-18 DOI:10.1111/rego.12541
Alizée Delpierre, Didier Demazière, Hajar El Fatihi
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Statistical profiling algorithms claiming to predict which jobseekers are at risk of becoming long-term unemployed are spread unevenly across countries. However, the pathways and histories of these tools are understudied. Because the profiling path in France is a winding one, it is fruitful to study the production of profiling acceptability within the Public Employment Service (PES), and upstream of its reception by frontline advisers. Using a mix of interviews and written sources, we show that the production of profiling acceptability sits at the crossroads of two processes: technical and political transformations of the instrument itself and broader institutional and managerial transformations of the PES. On the basis of this case study, the paper enriches our understanding of the slow and incremental rationalization of public services that we have termed “professional rationalization.” We argue that, far from being a softened or moderated form of bureaucratic rationalization, it is powerful—perhaps even irreversible—precisely because it transforms its target (frontline advisers) before the rationalization instrument is even deployed.
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一个有争议的政策工具的秘密合法化:法国公共就业服务的统计分析
声称可以预测哪些求职者有长期失业风险的统计分析算法在各国的分布并不均衡。然而,这些工具的途径和历史尚未得到充分研究。由于法国的分析路径是曲折的,因此研究公共就业服务(PES)内部分析可接受性的产生以及一线顾问对其接受程度的上游是富有成效的。通过访谈和书面资料的组合,我们表明,概要分析可接受性的产生处于两个过程的十字路口:工具本身的技术和政治变革以及PES更广泛的制度和管理变革。在此案例研究的基础上,本文丰富了我们对公共服务缓慢而渐进的合理化的理解,我们称之为“专业合理化”。我们认为,它远不是一种软化或缓和的官僚合理化形式,它是强大的——甚至可能是不可逆转的——正是因为它在合理化工具部署之前就改变了它的目标(一线顾问)。
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