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- Published online August 3, 2023.
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© 2023 Russell Sage Foundation. Herd, Pamela, Hilary Hoynes, Jamila Michener, and Donald Moynihan. 2023. “Introduction: Administrative Burden as a Mechanism of Inequality in Policy Implementation.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 9(5): 1–30. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2023.9.5.01. Direct correspondence to: Pamela Herd, at ph627@georgetown.edu, Georgetown University, McCourt School of Public Policy, 37th Street NW O Street NW, Old North #100, Washington, D.C. 20057, United States. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
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- aDistinguished Professor of Public Policy at Georgetown University, United States
- bProfessor of economics and public policy and Haas Distinguished Chair of Economic Disparities at the University of California–Berkeley, United States
- cAssociate professor of government and public policy at Cornell University, United States
- dMcCourt Chair of Public Policy at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University, United States.1
- Correspondence author:
Pamela Herd, (ph627{at}georgetown.edu)
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- Abstract
- ADMINISTRATIVE BURDEN AS A KEY PART OF POLICY IMPLEMENTATION
- LEARNING COSTS
- COMPLIANCE COSTS
- PSYCHOLOGICAL COSTS
- THE EFFECTS OF ADMINISTRATIVE BURDENS
- BURDENS HAVE LARGE EFFECTS ON ACCESS TO RIGHTS AND PUBLIC SERVICES
- BURDENS FACILITATE SOCIAL CONTROL
- BURDENS REINFORCE INEQUALITY
- PEOPLE WITH FEWER RESOURCES ARE LESS EQUIPPED TO MANAGE BURDENS
- THE EFFECTS OF BURDENS ACCUMULATE OVER TIME
- SOURCES OF ADMINISTRATIVE BURDENS
- BURDENS ARE POLICYMAKING BY OTHER MEANS
- POLICY DESIGN MATTERS, BUT UNIVERSALISM IS NOT A SUFFICIENT FIX
- BUREAUCRACIES ARE NOT NATURALLY INCLINED TO DETECT AND MINIMIZE BURDEN
- THE FEDERATED AND FRAGMENTED NATURE OF U.S. POLICY IMPLEMENTATION ENHANCES BURDENS
- THIRD PARTIES CAN BUFFER OR AMPLIFY BURDENS
- TOWARD SIMPLE, ACCESSIBLE, AND RESPECTFUL GOVERNMENT
- ADMINISTRATIVE DATA AND TECHNOLOGY CAN HELP, WITH CAVEATS
- NUDGES ARE NOT ENOUGH TO REDUCE BURDENS; SOMETIMES HELP IS NEEDED
- PRACTICAL BURDEN-REDUCTION POLICY FRAMEWORKS ARE EMERGING
- CONCLUSION: SOCIAL SCIENCE CAN CONTINUE TO PLAY AN ESSENTIAL ROLE IN REDUCING BURDENS
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