Administrative Burden¶
Moynihan, D., Herd, P., & Harvey, H. (2015). Administrative Burden: Learning, Psychological, and Compliance Costs in Citizen-State Interactions. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 25(1), 43-69.
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Primes¶
- Last-Mile Failure
- And administrative-burden research, recognising that statute and funding are not the delivered outcome, motivated auto-enrolment and presumptive-eligibility designs
This sourceEstablishes that statute and funding are not the delivered outcome — enrolment friction and administrative burden gate benefit receipt — motivating auto-enrolment and presumptive-eligibility designs.
Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract
The 2015 abstract establishes administrative burden as learning, psychological and compliance costs gating citizen-state interactions, but never states that this research motivated auto-enrolment or presumptive-eligibility designs.
“Administrative burden is conceptualized as a function of learning, psychological, and compliance costs that citizens experience in their interactions with government.”
- And administrative-burden research, recognising that statute and funding are not the delivered outcome, motivated auto-enrolment and presumptive-eligibility designs
- Screening
- The stronger distributional critique — that the same frictions fall disproportionately on less-resourced participants — is developed in the administrative burden literature (Moynihan, Herd, and Harvey 2015
This sourceDefines administrative burden as learning, compliance, and psychological costs in citizen-state interactions and frames burdens as a deliberate policy instrument with distributive consequences.
- The stronger distributional critique — that the same frictions fall disproportionately on less-resourced participants — is developed in the administrative burden literature (Moynihan, Herd, and Harvey 2015
Mechanisms¶
- Exception Request and Evidence Dossier
- Its failure mode is the burden of proof turning into a barrier: a dossier that demands exhaustive or humiliating evidence reproduces the very hardship it is meant to document, filtering out legitimate requesters who cannot marshal it.
This sourceShows that administrative compliance requirements impose material and psychological costs on citizens and can deter otherwise eligible people from securing public benefits or relief.
- Its failure mode is the burden of proof turning into a barrier: a dossier that demands exhaustive or humiliating evidence reproduces the very hardship it is meant to document, filtering out legitimate requesters who cannot marshal it.
- Permit or Approval Streamlining
- The café that used to wait fourteen months now waits a fraction of that, and nothing that protects a diner has been removed — only the administrative burden around it.
This sourceDefines administrative burden as the learning, psychological, and compliance costs imposed by interactions with government.
- The café that used to wait fourteen months now waits a fraction of that, and nothing that protects a diner has been removed — only the administrative burden around it.
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