PUBLIC PUBLIC PUBLIC BY AMINA ABDU and ABIGAIL JACOBS ADMINISTRATION

PUBLIC PUBLIC PUBLIC BY AMINA ABDU and ABIGAIL JACOBS ADMINISTRATION ADMINISTRATION ADMINISTRATION Keywords of the Datafied State Data & Society 79 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION By Amina Abdu and Abigail Jacobs Viewpoints from Within the Datafied State The federal government in the United States comprises elected repre- sentatives, like the president and members of Congress, and the federal agencies that. [...] In the early 20th century, public administration in the US was envisioned as the apolitical implementation of the state’s will, as expressed by the legislative branch.1 However, the work of agency officials has since come to be understood as political work in its own right. [...] The ICC was the first independent federal agency, and in many ways, the beginning of the administrative state, as the US government subsequently established oth- er permanent agencies to take on the work of public administration. [...] Gradually, beginning with the Reagan adminis- tration, the administrative state has pursued accountability by bringing the administrative apparatus under the control of the president, who is subject to the consequences of public opinion. [...] While the Census Bureau embraced many of the best practices identified in the algorithmic governance literature — transparency, stakeholder engagement, and external auditing — the census implementation of differential privacy became a site of significant contro- versy, ultimately undermining the legitimacy of the Bureau, its processes, and its products.34 This example illustrates the importance of.