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.
Domain-specific¶
- Cognitive Walkthrough
- Access-to-justice and public-benefits reformers run the same evaluative move on government procedures, an application closely tied to the "administrative burden" framework (Herd and Moynihan, 2018)
This sourceThe Herd and Moynihan monograph that defines the administrative-burden framework for how citizens experience government procedures.
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“Russell Sage Foundation”
- Access-to-justice and public-benefits reformers run the same evaluative move on government procedures, an application closely tied to the "administrative burden" framework (Herd and Moynihan, 2018)
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.
- Barrier Removal Workflow
- This is textbook administrative burden:
This sourceTreats paperwork, documentation, and other compliance demands as administrative burdens that can restrict access even when the underlying right or eligibility standard remains in place.
- This is textbook 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
- Exception Access and Status Channel
- Its failure mode is that an interface can look open while remaining functionally closed — the essence of administrative burden, where learning, compliance, and psychological costs quietly gatekeep even a published process.
This sourceDefines administrative burden as learning, compliance, and psychological costs that can restrict access to formally available programs.
- Its failure mode is that an interface can look open while remaining functionally closed — the essence of administrative burden, where learning, compliance, and psychological costs quietly gatekeep even a published process.
- Prequalification Process
- Its central weakness is that the workflow's burden is itself a filter — a heavy documentation load screens by administrative capacity as much as by risk, quietly excluding smaller or nonstandard applicants who lack the paperwork rather than the merit.
This sourceShows that paperwork and documentation requirements can themselves filter access by imposing compliance costs.
- Its central weakness is that the workflow's burden is itself a filter — a heavy documentation load screens by administrative capacity as much as by risk, quietly excluding smaller or nonstandard applicants who lack the paperwork rather than the merit.
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