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Governing the Perceptual Infrastructure : Public Administration in the Age of Algorithmic Perception
Public governance, administration and finances law review (Online), Vol.11(1), pp.169-190
2026
Web of Science ID: WOS:001819431300009
Abstract
Artificial intelligence systems increasingly shape not only what information citizens access but the interpretive frameworks through which they perceive public affairs, posing a governance challenge that public administration scholarship has yet to theorise. Through conceptual and normative analysis, the paper develops the construct of perceptual infrastructure – the cognitive and informational substrate of democratic deliberation – drawing on information theory, public administration and regulatory-governance scholarship, and tests it against the EU regulatory architecture. The analysis shows that the algorithmic construction of perceptual frameworks constitutes a distinct governance domain that the EU AI Act and the Digital Services Act do not reach, owing primarily to a regulatory omission rather than an implementation deficit: existing provisions take systems, use cases and identifiable harms as their object, not the cumulative, longitudinal construction of perception. An accountability framework is proposed – incorporating aggregate transparency, perceptual sovereignty as a citizen right, proportional responsibility and meta-perceptual literacy – with concrete implications for administrative accountability, regulatory capacity and democratic resilience.
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- Title
- Governing the Perceptual Infrastructure : Public Administration in the Age of Algorithmic Perception
- Publication Details
- Public governance, administration and finances law review (Online), Vol.11(1), pp.169-190
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publisher
- Nemzeti Koezszolgalati Egyetem,National University of Public Service
- Number of pages
- 22
- Copyright
- (c) 2026 Haris Alibašić
- Identifiers
- WOS:001819431300009; 99381837222606600
- Academic Unit
- Business Administration; Lewis Bear Jr. College of Business
- Language
- English