Bureaucratic Burden

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• Introduction: Administrative Burden as a Mechanism of Inequality in ...

  At the broadest level, burdens persist either because they serve an end for some political actors or because the problems they create are kept hidden. Burdens, of course, can reflect normal bureaucratic dysfunction, when administrative actors fail to understand, are indifferent to, or feel they cannot change how state actions and inactions affect how the public experiences the state. Despite individual behavioral reasons that burdens are consequential, such as individuals being present-biased [...] For many, the experience of the state is the experience of burdens. People who rely on social welfare programs, from food assistance to the EITC, simply spend more of their lives navigating complicated bureaucracies to meet their basic needs than do those with more resources (Land 2018). Thus the accumulation of burdens will reinforce inequality to the degree that people systematically experience the same sort of burdens in the administrative venues they are assigned. Marginalized groups may [...] Public organizations are responsive to political messaging and directives about maximizing political values that result in burdens (Moynihan, Herd, and Harvey 2015). Even absent political pressure, though, they too often lack direct mechanisms of feedback that measure burdens, or incentives to reduce them. Robert Merton (1963) long ago observed that bureaucracies tend toward goal displacement: focusing on rule creation and rule following at the expense of their core purpose. Such tendencies are

• How Administrative Burdens Can Harm Health

  | KEY POINTS: Administrative burdens can negatively affect health by blocking people from accessing health-promoting social welfare programs such as food stamps and income supports, and may also have more direct health impacts via the psychological and stress mechanisms that come from navigating burdensome bureaucracies. Administrative burdens include learning costs, such as finding out whether one is eligible for a program; compliance costs, such as burdensome paperwork and documentation; [...] Burdens often have political origins and significant distributional impacts. Many are deployed as “policy by other means” to achieveaims that politicians otherwise struggle to acknowledge or enact, including rationing of benefits and services. Although most people are familiar with cumbersome bureaucratic processes, it is easy to miss the scale, systemic nature, and intensity of the effects these processes can have. Moreover, they are often targeted at certain groups, including female, Black, [...] and psychological costs, such as the stress and stigma that people feel when interacting with government programs. We know relatively little about the downstream health implications of negative encounters with bureaucracies. Documenting the health effects of burdens is a compelling research opportunity that population health researchers are uniquely situated to address. To fulfill that opportunity, researchers need to pay just as much attention to the administration of social and economic

• Reducing bureaucracy - BMJV

  Bureaucracy reduction is an ongoing task that cannot be concluded with a single piece of legislation. At the same time, we must also bear in mind that genuine bureaucracy reduction can only succeed if action is taken at the European level too. Almost 60 percent of the bureaucratic burden in Germany is a result of the transposition of EU law. \\This is why Germany and France have launched a joint bureaucracy reduction initiative.\\ Future Financing Act [...] sooner in the process so as to provide planning certainty at an early stage. Less bureaucracy means more speed. Because bureaucracy is not just a burden on citizens; it stifles the state and the economy too. In times of economic hardship more than ever, companies need room for manoeuvre, enabling them to react to problems flexibly. They need more time to adapt their business models and core processes. Bureaucracy diverts valuable resources from these goals. This is why so many companies are [...] and cuts retention periods for a whole range of accounting records. This will save not just paper, but also time, money and trouble. On 1 January 2025, key provisions of BEG IV will come into force, reducing the bureaucratic burden on both business and citizens.

• Red tape - Wikipedia

  7. ^ Burden, Barry C.; Canon, David T.; Mayer, Kenneth R.; Moynihan, Donald P. (2012). "The Effect of Administrative Burden on Bureaucratic Perception of Policies: Evidence from Election Administration". Public Administration Review. 72 (5): 741–751. doi "Doi (identifier)"):10.1111/j.1540-6210.2012.02600.x. ISSN "ISSN (identifier)") 0033-3352. JSTOR "JSTOR (identifier)") 41687989. [...] 23. ^ Burden, Barry C.; Canon, David T.; Mayer, Kenneth R.; Moynihan, Donald P. (2012). "The Effect of Administrative Burden on Bureaucratic Perception of Policies: Evidence from Election Administration". Public Administration Review. 72 (5): 741–751. doi "Doi (identifier)"):10.1111/j.1540-6210.2012.02600.x. ISSN "ISSN (identifier)") 0033-3352. JSTOR "JSTOR (identifier)") 41687989. [...] George et al. (2020), Red Tape, Organizational Performance and Employee Outcomes: Meta-Analysis, Meta-Regression and Research Agenda. Public Administration Review. Barry Bozeman (2000), Bureaucracy and Red Tape Prentice-Hall Publishing. Pamela Herd; Donald Moynihan (2019). Administrative Burden: Policymaking by Other Means. Russell Sage Foundation. ISBN "ISBN (identifier)") 978-0871544445.

• How To Address the Administrative Burdens of Accessing the Safety ...

  “administrative burdens.”7 Broader than any specific program or benefit, administrative burdens refer to any challenge imposed on people that makes it significantly more difficult to access or maintain a benefit for which they would otherwise be eligible. Some governments also impose administrative burdens on certain activities they seek to restrict, such as voting, abortions, and adoptions by same-sex couples.8 [...] As elements of program design, administrative burdens are typically sold as measures to weed out ineligible people and prevent fraud. Yet by focusing more on preventing so-called undeserving people from accessing benefits than on simply delivering vital services, policymakers have created so many hoops that participants must jump through that those who need help most are far too frequently denied it.10 Worst of all, administrative burdens perpetuate inequity because they tend to be most heavily [...] Improvement to individual administrative burdens in individual programs is much needed, but any upgrade by itself will be insufficient long term without a cultural change, within the bureaucracy and among politicians designing programs, that emphasizes efficiency, user experience, and participation. There needs to be a pervasive desire in government to shift as many burdens as possible off of individuals and onto the state.96 The Biden administration is leading this effort and should continue