En guise de conclusion / Les résistances aux instruments de gouvernement

Bourhis, Jean-Pierre Le; Lascoumes, Pierre

doi:10.3917/scpo.halpe.2014.01.0493

Cited by 44 publications

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“…First, we contribute to the debate around the issue of resistance in the sociology of policy instruments (Le Bourhis & Lascoumes, 2014). Beyond activating unemployed people, algorithms have direct consequences for those working within the welfare state that include: modifications to their work (De Witte et al, 2016), redefinition of their decision-making conditions (Ranerup & Henriksen, 2022) and threats to their expertise (Bovens & Zouridis, 2002).…”

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

Delpierre

2023

Regulation & Governance

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

Delpierre

2023

Regulation & Governance

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“…The typology of socio-technical resistances allows the empirical analysis to be orientated systematically, in such a way as to develop comparability between the cases and to test theoretical inferences. It is underpinned by the work of Le Bourhis and Lascoumes (2014), Saurugger and Terpan (2016), Callon (1990) and Commons (1934), to identify forms of socio-technical resistance. They put forward the role of structural and technical factors as non-human actors, of rationality-related factors and of territory.…”

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“…By including non-human actors and passive STR, we can consider implementation failures and non-compliance that do not manifest exclusively through actors’ struggles (Fleming and Spicer, 2008; De Holan, 2016) but also from actors’ interactions with their context, e.g. politics, technical components, and administrative organization (Le Bourhis and Lascoumes, 2014). In sum, STR arises not only from individual components of the system but also from the interactions of groups of components.…”

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Assessing socio-technical resistance to public policy instruments: Insights from water performance indicators in the Grenoble area (France)

Bolognesi

Brochet

Renou

2021

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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This article puts forward the notion of socio-technical resistance with an application to the regulation through performance indicators in the water sector. Governance failures are mainly explained by concentrating on governance design, considering regulation as a set of control mechanisms. We propose an alternative perspective by putting the emphasis on socio-technical resistance to take into account both human and non-human actors in the governance process. We observe the misuse of performance indicators by local actors in urban water systems in Europe to highlight the empirical significance of socio-technical resistance. Results support that socio-technical resistance is frequent and reduces significantly the reliability of the information gathered through performance indicators. Drawing on a new typology of resistance, we show socio-technical resistance is a dynamic combination of cognitive, interpretative, territorial, strategic, technical and structural factors. These results and the proposed notion underline a crucial limitation of public policies and regulation in the process of policy-instruments implementation and compliance. Empirically, it reveals particularly relevant to provide new insights on New public management and performance-based regulation, where measurement are crucial.

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“…» Les questions auxquelles la raison modélisatrice entend apporter des réponses sont nombreuses, ce qui explique son intérêt croissant pour les décideur•se•s. Le rôle de l'expertise dans la décision a fait l'objet d'une attention toute particulière par la littérature sur l'instrumentation de l'action publique (Lascoumes et Le Galès, 2004 ;Halpern, Lascoumes et Le Galès, 2014), qui insiste sur la manière dont certains dispositifs techniques déterminent le réel et les options qui semblent s'offrir aux acteurs (Barry, 2001), mais aussi sur les possibilités de résistance auxquels ces dispositifs donnent prise (Le Bourhis et Lascoumes, 2014). Nous suivrons ici ces pistes d'analyses, en montrant comment la raison modélisatrice, si elle détermine certains horizons de la prise de décision, n'en fait pas moins l'objet de contestations que nous explorons sous deux angles : celui des asymétries dans l'accès aux arènes modélisatrices et celui des jeux politiques dans lesquels les décideur•se•s inscrivent les scénarios modélisés.…”

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En guise de conclusion / Les résistances aux instruments de gouvernement

Cited by 44 publications

References 25 publications

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

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

Assessing socio-technical resistance to public policy instruments: Insights from water performance indicators in the Grenoble area (France)

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