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Getting the Priorities Straight: Public Values in AI Adoption

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Polihot 公共行政 AI Adoption Public Values Ethnography Public Organizations Public-Private Partnerships
PA — 2026-08-08 Original Getting the Priorities Straight: Public Values in AI Adoption Jinke M. Oostvogel, Matthew Young, Bram Klievink Abstract ABSTRACT Artificial Intelligence (AI) is adopted in public organizations as a transformative innovation, yet how value prioritizations unfold in AI adoption processes remains underexplored. Therefore, we ask: How do public values unfold in AI adoption processes in public organizations? We conducted a qualitative case study of an AI adoption process at the radiology department of a Dutch academic hospital after the decision to adopt is made and before implementation, using ethnographic fieldwork, interviews, and document analysis. Our findings highlight how public values and the AI adoption process are balanced in the transition from the initiation to the implementation stage. We find a recursive relationship between public values and the AI adoption process. We show an interplay of instrumental and intrinsic values. We highlight the importance of top‐down adoption decisions for how public values are perceived, and we show the importance of public organizations ensuring public values are safeguarded in public‐private partnerships.

Toward a Theory of Value as Praxis: Linking Public Values and Public Value

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Polihot 公共行政 Public Values Public Value Praxis Translation and Mediation Public Administration Theory
PAR — 2026-04-06 Original Toward a Theory of Value as Praxis: Linking Public Values and Public Value Bishoy L. Zaki Abstract ABSTRACT Literature on value developed along two influential interpretations: public values as normative expectations about policymaking and governance and public value expressing added or lost benefits experienced through public action. Although normatively linked, these interpretations evolved as separate streams, limiting conceptual clarity and cumulative analysis. In response, this article develops “value as praxis” as an analytical framework that treats the relationship between public value and public values as a translation‐and‐mediation process. It specifies how public values travel from articulation and prioritization to encoding within rules and resources, embedding in organizational and sociotechnical arrangements, enactment in design and implementation, and eventually experiences of “value” or “disvalue” in the form of benefits and burdens. The framework illustrates this translation‐and‐mediation process across five recurring process groups (families of mechanisms): institutional , regulatory , sociotechnical , design , and learning . It offers a basis for studying value creation, destruction, and disvalue, and for diagnosing where the translation of public values into public value breaks down across contexts and populations.