Governance analysis, not literature summary

Research notes on how digital systems redistribute authority, legitimacy and control.

The archive reviews papers on AI, digital identity, public infrastructure, regulation and socio-technical systems. Each review extracts the institutional mechanism: who gains decision rights, which safeguards are operational, and where enforcement, revocation or redress remain absent.

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Reviews that test whether governance claims are operational: whether authority, evidence, enforcement, revocation, accountability and remedy are actually implemented.

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Privacy & Data Protection · 2026-10-26

A sustainable platform for federated health data access, AI innovation, and regulatory acceptance in alignment with the European Health Data Space principles

Open Research Europe 2026, 6:181 (version 4, 6 October 2026)

Federated health infrastructure preserves local custody of patient data, but legitimate secondary use still depends on independently reviewable access authority, cross-border policy reconciliation, and evidence of acceptable analytical outcomes.

State Capacity & Administrative Systems · 2026-10-21

Invisible Government, Visible Accountability: A Governance Framework for Proactive Public Services in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Artefactum – Revista de Estudos Interdisciplinares, v. 25 n. 11 (2026)

Proactive government does not remove administrative power when it removes citizen-facing steps; it shifts that power into less visible back-office coordination, so every reduction in friction should be matched by stronger traceability, contestability, and accountable authority.

State Capacity & Administrative Systems · 2026-10-21

Explaining governance with depth: Critical realism and the morphogenetic turn in public administration research

International Review of Administrative Sciences

Formal rules do not govern by themselves: administrative outcomes are produced through the interaction of structural relations, cultural expectations, and reflexive agency over time, so governance analysis must identify the mechanisms that reproduce or transform those arrangements rather than infer effectiveness from institutional design alone.

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AI Governance

Institutional authority, accountability, deployment controls and the allocation of AI-related risk.

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