KC 13 Administrative Burdens 2. (Keiser & Miller and Burden et al.)

9 important questions on KC 13 Administrative Burdens 2. (Keiser & Miller and Burden et al.)

What evidence found Keiser & Miller in their study on the effect of administrative burdens as symbols on citizens (i.e. Signaling)?

Informing citizens about burdens increases support  Especially for Republican citizens

How do Burden et al. Define the burdens that are experienced by bureaucrats?

Burdens are the administrators experience of policy implementation as onerous

What is bureau shaping?


perceptions of administrative burden will influence preferences for the structural allocation of a task, or
More specifically, we expect that officials will prefer to shift burdensome tasks to other actors.
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What is the result of the study of Burden et al.?

The administrators indeed allocate burdensome tasks to others
Perceived burdens result in bureau shaping.

Give three reasons why administrative burdens matter

They are:
  1. Consequential
  2. Distributive
  3. Constructed

Why are burdens consequential?

They affect citizens and bureaucrats: They are big and have numerous affects

Why are burdens distributive?

They hurt some people more than others. They are not distributed equally.
  • some people rely more on government programs and therefore experience more on onerous procedures
  • Some people have less human capital: Human capital = Education, health, psychological resourches, money, social capital
= Those that need the programs the most, are also the ones that have the least human capital. So they are most effected

Why are burdens constructed?

  • Burdens are the product of political and administrative choices
  • So political actors can choose to create more, amplify or diminish burdens

What role can third parties have in burdens?

  1. Lobby
  2. change learning costs
  3. can help them

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