My latest article, titled “Benchmarking and provenance: The politics of trust in EU internal security,” is now out in International Political Sociology. In the paper, I analyze how the EU tries to make its internal security databases more trustworthy, given that mistakes in the data can lead to serious problems for policing, border control, and asylum decisions. Based on an empirical analysis of different data quality strategies by the Commission and the Council, the paper argues that “trust in data” is not natural or automatic but something that is actively built through political priorities and technical practices.
It is available as full Open Access version that can be access and downloaded free of charge.
Matthias Leese 