Administrative Burden¶
Herd, P., & Moynihan, D. P. (2018). Administrative Burden: Policymaking by Other Means. Sage.
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Primes¶
- Absorbing State Under Restricted Modality
- Bureaucratic dead-ends. A claimant enters an administrative state whose forward-progression affordances require resources — legal representation, fluency, document access, time off work — outside their modality; the state has procedural exits, just not exits they can take.
This sourceShows how learning, compliance, and psychological costs strand claimants in administrative states whose exits require resources they lack, relocating failure from the claimant to the process.
- Bureaucratic dead-ends. A claimant enters an administrative state whose forward-progression affordances require resources — legal representation, fluency, document access, time off work — outside their modality; the state has procedural exits, just not exits they can take.
Mechanisms¶
- Access Pathway Map
- Its central failure mode is that it maps the route but not why the institution built it that way — a tidy funnel diagram can quietly imply the applicant is the variable to fix, when the drop-off is really the accumulated weight of the process itself, what Herd and Moynihan call administrative burden
This sourceShows that administrative burdens—paperwork, complex rules, and other process costs—can delay or block access to benefits and rights.
- Its central failure mode is that it maps the route but not why the institution built it that way — a tidy funnel diagram can quietly imply the applicant is the variable to fix, when the drop-off is really the accumulated weight of the process itself, what Herd and Moynihan call administrative burden
- Administrative Burden Audit
- Its failure mode is that the auditor's estimate of a burden is not the entrant's lived one — an insider reliably under-weights the psychological and stigma costs that do the most exclusionary work, precisely the costs Herd and Moynihan catalog as the heart of administrative burden.
This sourceCatalogs psychological costs among the citizen experiences that constitute administrative burden.
- Its failure mode is that the auditor's estimate of a burden is not the entrant's lived one — an insider reliably under-weights the psychological and stigma costs that do the most exclusionary work, precisely the costs Herd and Moynihan catalog as the heart of administrative burden.
- Eligibility Audit
- The guarding discipline is to seed the panel with genuinely hard cases and to trace exclusions to what the archetype calls administrative burden
This sourceDefines administrative burden through learning, compliance, and psychological costs that disproportionately impede disadvantaged people’s access to programs.
- The guarding discipline is to seed the panel with genuinely hard cases and to trace exclusions to what the archetype calls administrative burden
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