The Computarization of the Electoral Process
Baudot, Pierre-Yves
The Computarization of the Electoral Process - 2014.
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This article examines the creation of two sorts of knowledge within the Ministry of Interior during the computerization of the electoral process : a regulation knowledge and a practical knowledge. The production of these two sorts of knowledge is related to the fact the Ministry of Interior has structured two different administrative configurations. The first one, it monopolizes the production of technology ; the second one can only regulate the activity of partially autonomous actors like municipalities or state agencies. Notwithstanding, these two positions are mutually reinforcing. The Ministry of Interior uses its control position to reinforce its technical potential and vice versa. The way the Ministry introduces these two sorts of knowledge to foreign civil servants tells us something about the way knowledge circulates in different administrative contexts. If knowledge that circulates is essentially the practical one, the Ministry of Interior says nothing about the regulation tactics he managed to learn. Technical knowledge is introduced as above-grounded, depoliticized, despite the fact that it is the articulation between technical knowledge and political regulation that allows the Ministry of Interior to preserve its position in this configuration of public action.
The Computarization of the Electoral Process - 2014.
33
This article examines the creation of two sorts of knowledge within the Ministry of Interior during the computerization of the electoral process : a regulation knowledge and a practical knowledge. The production of these two sorts of knowledge is related to the fact the Ministry of Interior has structured two different administrative configurations. The first one, it monopolizes the production of technology ; the second one can only regulate the activity of partially autonomous actors like municipalities or state agencies. Notwithstanding, these two positions are mutually reinforcing. The Ministry of Interior uses its control position to reinforce its technical potential and vice versa. The way the Ministry introduces these two sorts of knowledge to foreign civil servants tells us something about the way knowledge circulates in different administrative contexts. If knowledge that circulates is essentially the practical one, the Ministry of Interior says nothing about the regulation tactics he managed to learn. Technical knowledge is introduced as above-grounded, depoliticized, despite the fact that it is the articulation between technical knowledge and political regulation that allows the Ministry of Interior to preserve its position in this configuration of public action.
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