Donald Moynihan
Biographic Data
| ID | 1471019 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donald Moynihan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donald |
| FAMILY NAME | Moynihan |
| SIGNATURE | MOYNIHAN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgetown University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 537 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
How the experience of administrative burdens affects clients’ psychological well-being: The role of negativity bias
A core claim of the administrative burden literature is that the experience of frictions during administrative encounters can generate psychological costs. Using a split-ballot survey experiment with a question order design (n = 3,812), we show that being asked to recall administrative encounters in a welfare program negatively affects people’s psychological affect. Further, we show that the responses to burdens are asymmetric and consistent with…
Digital administrative burdens and clawback logics: The Australian Robodebt scheme
This essay considers digital administrative burdens in the context of the Robodebt case in Australia. Faulty algorithms unfairly tagged many as potential welfare frauds, and an unwieldy digital process offered individuals little chance to correct the error, instead coercing them into repayment. The scheme collapsed after investigations and a class-action lawsuit. The promised savings for the government became, instead, a massive financial and pol…
Administrative Burdens in the Social Safety Net
Administrative burdens shape people’s experiences of, and access to, social safety net programs. They can undermine the goals these programs are trying to achieve. Such burdens are the experience of policy implementation as onerous, and arise via learning costs (knowing about the existence of and requirements of public services), compliance costs (time and effort spent dealing with bureaucratic demands, such as paperwork and documentation), and p…
Administrative checkpoints, burdens, and human‐centered design: Increasing interview access to raise SNAP participation
In this study we describe the potential of human‐centered design principles to identify burdens, reducing the effects of administrative checkpoints. Administrative checkpoints—mandatory requirements that must be satisfied in order to progress in an administrative process—have disproportionate negative effects in excluding the public from receiving public services. Mandatory interviews are one such checkpoint. Based on consultation with safety net…
Gendered administrative burden: Regulating Gendered Bodies, Labor, and Identity
Gendered burdens are experiences of coercive and controlling state actions that directly regulate gendered bodies, labor, and identity. Burdens are not simply about preventing access to rights and benefits, they're about control and coercian. Gendered burdens generate gender inequality through four mechanisms. First, administrative burdens regulate reproductive bodies, legitimating the state’s direct control over reproductive health care, includi…
Short and sweet: Measuring experiences of administrative burden
Emerging research on administrative burden has highlighted the need for survey measures that capture people’s experience of government as onerous. Such indicators can connect research and practice, and fulfill government mandates to identify and reduce burdens. This study presents a measure of experienced administrative burden, based on a survey of social welfare users. Using psychometric scale development techniques and a split sample approach, …
Burden tolerance: Developing a validated measurement instrument across seven countries
The emergence of the administrative burden literature has generated new theoretical, conceptual, and empirical knowledge. However, the accumulation of comparable knowledge is limited by the lack of validated measurement of core concepts. This article validates a four‐item scale of burden tolerance , that is, people's acceptance of state actions that impose administrative burdens on citizens and residents interacting with government, using data fr…
How difficult should it be? Evidence of burden tolerance from a nationally representative sample
There is growing attention to how policymakers and bureaucrats think about administrative burdens, but we know less about public tolerance for burdens. We examine public burden tolerance in two major programmes (Medicaid and SNAP) using a representative sample of US residents. We show broad support for work requirements and weaker support for generally making it difficult to access benefits. People with conservative beliefs, greater opposition to…
Digital resilience in wartime: The case of Ukraine
A key topic in digital government is how to improve public services. The global pandemic focused attention on the use of digital in the context of crisis. Here, we consider how a digital innovation in response to a different type of crisis, examining Ukraine's response to Russia's invasion of 2022. We describe how the government engaged in what we characterize as digital resilience, that is, the use of digital government capacities to maintain ba…
Populism and administrative dysfunction: The impact of U. S. government shutdowns on personnel and policy implementation
We examine the implications of anti‐statist populist leaders' inattention to competence and service delivery, and their embrace of a particular form of dysfunctional politics: government shutdowns. This paper explores the effects of US government shutdowns on agency policy implementation and personnel and using survey data from several hundred thousand federal employees. The first study gauges the effect of the 2018–2019 shutdown on specific elem…
Racialized Burdens: Applying Racialized Organization Theory to the Administrative State
This article develops the concept of racialized burdens as a means of examining the role of race in administrative practice. Racialized burdens are the experience of learning, compliance and psychological costs that serve as inequality reproducing mechanisms. To develop this concept, we examine administrative burdens in the US state from the theoretical perspective of racialized organizations. Using examples from attempts to access citizenship ri…
Implementing the Expanded Child Tax Credit: What Worked, What Didn't, and How to Move Forward
The Child Tax Credit (CTC) expansion was an extraordinary experiment not just in policy design but also in policy implementation. As such, it cast light on the possibilities and blind spots of using the tax system to deliver safety-net benefits. The rapid and widespread take-up of the benefit reflected the use of a specific implementation tool that reduced administrative burden for the public: auto-enrollment via the tax system. But use of this t…
Fewer Burdens but Greater Inequality? Reevaluating the Safety Net through the Lens of Administrative Burden
We examine changes in administrative burden in U.S. social safety net programs, or the negative encounters with the state that people experience when trying to access and use the benefits for which they are eligible. Existing theories equate targeted safety net policies, which sharply limit eligibility, as compared to universal policies, which have more expansive eligibility, with increased administrative burden. The past 30 years, however, tell …
Behavior and Burdens: Introduction to the Symposium on Behavioral Implications of Administrative Burden
The topic of administrative burden is relatively novel, but reflects people’s most common experiences of government: confusion about what is expected of them (learning costs), onerous processes (compliance costs), and associated emotions such as frustration (psychological cost). This symposium applies a behavioral perspective to the topic. We learn, for example, of the role of race and social constructions in people’s beliefs about burdens and th…
The politics of administrative burden
This chapter presents the administrative burden framework. This approach examines how people experience policy implementation as onerous in their interactions with the state, whether it be learning costs involved in finding out about public services, compliance costs like filling out forms, or psychological costs, such as stress, stigma or loss of autonomy. After introducing the concept of administrative burden, we address the politics of how bur…
Health in citizen‐state interactions: How physical and mental health problems shape experiences of administrative burden and reduce take‐up
Public services represent a key means by which societies seek to reduce inequalities. However, some people may experience administrative procedures as more burdensome than others, creating inequality within programs intended to be equity‐enhancing. Prior work has found human capital (e.g., education and conditions like scarcity) to affect burden and take‐up. We build on this by examining the role of health in the form of attention disorders, pain…
When blame avoidance backfires: Responses to performance framing and outgroup scapegoating during the Covid‐19 pandemic
Public officials use blame avoidance strategies when communicating performance information. While such strategies typically involve shifting blame to political opponents or other governments, we examine how they might direct blame to ethnic groups. We focus on the COVID‐19 pandemic, where the Trump administration sought to shift blame by scapegoating (using the term “Chinese virus”) and mitigate blame by positively framing performance information…
Matching to Categories: Learning and Compliance Costs in Administrative Processes
A perennial task for the state is the creation and policing of categories. State-created categories have real world impacts on the public. The consequences of racial categorizations, for example, are well-documented. We examine a less studied consequence of state categorization, which are the administrative burdens created when individuals attempt to match themselves to state-created categories. Matching requires time and effort, and failure to m…
The Unequal Distribution of Opportunity: A National Audit Study of Bureaucratic Discrimination in Primary School Access
Administrators can use their discretion to discriminate in the provision of public services via two mechanisms. They make decisions to allocate public services, allowing them to discriminate via allocative exclusion. They can also discriminate by targeting administrative burdens toward outgroups to make bureaucratic processes more onerous. While prior audit studies only examine the use of administrative burdens, we offer evidence of both mechanis…
Delegitimization, Deconstruction and Control: Undermining the Administrative State
Three phenomena that undermine the U.S. administrative state were taken to extremes under President Trump, contributing to democratic backsliding. The first is delegitimization: a suspicion of the public sector that has curdled into claims that public officials are deep state enemies of the people. This undermines belief in the capacity of government to deliver on democratic promises. Second is deconstruction, which includes undermining administr…
Kafka’s Bureaucracy: Immigration Administrative Burdens in the Trump Era
What does a government do when it decides to make a public service as burdensome as possible? We consider this question in the context of immigration policy during the Trump administration. The case demonstrates the deliberate and governmentwide use of administrative burdens to make legal processes of immigration confusing, demanding, and stressful. Many of these changes occurred via what we characterize as formal administrative directives, a lev…
Administrative Burden Symposium: Introduction – Are we ‘administering inequality’ through our welfare systems
Over the past three decades social inequality has risen in almost all OECD countries, reaching historical highs. Social inequality is created and maintained not just by the specific focus or goals of particular policies, but by the norms, values and processes of our government institutions. This special issue looks at how administrative burden is constructed in a range of Australian social policy areas
Does Managerial Use of Performance Information Matter to Organizational Outcomes
Public management scholars have made impressive strides in explaining managerial usage of performance information (PI). Does such PI use matter to performance? If so, what types of use make a difference? To answer these questions, we connect managerial self-reported behavior with objective organizational outcomes in Texas schools. We control for lagged comparative school performance and employ inverse probability weighting to mitigate endogeneity…
Trump’s (mis)management of the Covid-19 pandemic in the US
Behavioral Public Performance: How People Make Sense of Government Metrics
A revolution in the measurement and reporting of government performance through the use of published metrics, rankings and reports has swept the globe at all levels of government. Performance metrics now inform important decisions by politicians, public managers and citizens. However, this performance movement has neglected a second revolution in behavioral science that has revealed cognitive limitations and biases in people's identification, per…
Racialized Burdens: Applying Racialized Organization Theory to the Administrative State
This article develops the concept of racialized burdens as a means of examining the role of race in administrative practice. Racialized burdens are the experience of learning, compliance and psychological costs that serve as inequality reproducing mechanisms. To develop this concept, we examine administrative burdens in the US state from the theoretical perspective of racialized organizations. Using examples from attempts to access citizenship ri…
Red Tape and Democracy: How Rules Affect Citizenship Rights
Over the past 15 years, political science has paid increasing attention to the feedback effects of policy—the idea that the design of policies has profound effects on how citizens experience government and understand their role in the polity. One concept that is perfectly placed to explain how citizens experience administrative rules is red tape. But even as an impressive empirical scholarship on red tape has grown in recent years, it has focused…
Health in citizen‐state interactions: How physical and mental health problems shape experiences of administrative burden and reduce take‐up
Public services represent a key means by which societies seek to reduce inequalities. However, some people may experience administrative procedures as more burdensome than others, creating inequality within programs intended to be equity‐enhancing. Prior work has found human capital (e.g., education and conditions like scarcity) to affect burden and take‐up. We build on this by examining the role of health in the form of attention disorders, pain…
The Unequal Distribution of Opportunity: A National Audit Study of Bureaucratic Discrimination in Primary School Access
Administrators can use their discretion to discriminate in the provision of public services via two mechanisms. They make decisions to allocate public services, allowing them to discriminate via allocative exclusion. They can also discriminate by targeting administrative burdens toward outgroups to make bureaucratic processes more onerous. While prior audit studies only examine the use of administrative burdens, we offer evidence of both mechanis…
JPART Virtual Issue on Citizen-State Interactions in Public Administration Research
In this virtual issue, we bring together a collection of research articles that—although not usually grouped together—all illustrate the importance of citizen-state interactions. Specifically, we include articles that directly incorporate citizens’ perceptions, attitudes, experiences of, or behavior related to public administration. About 10% of all JPART articles over the life of the journal so far (1991–2015) met our inclusion criteria. Of thos…
Matching to Categories: Learning and Compliance Costs in Administrative Processes
A perennial task for the state is the creation and policing of categories. State-created categories have real world impacts on the public. The consequences of racial categorizations, for example, are well-documented. We examine a less studied consequence of state categorization, which are the administrative burdens created when individuals attempt to match themselves to state-created categories. Matching requires time and effort, and failure to m…
Dysfunction by Design: Trumpism as Administrative Doctrine
The administration of President Donald Trump caused widespread damage to administrative capabilities of the American federal government. Actions of the administration can be attributed to several causes, including character weaknesses of the President himself, the disadvantages of a political insurgent, and the challenges faced by every president in an era of divided government. The actions of the administration also reflect a governing strategy …
When blame avoidance backfires: Responses to performance framing and outgroup scapegoating during the Covid‐19 pandemic
Public officials use blame avoidance strategies when communicating performance information. While such strategies typically involve shifting blame to political opponents or other governments, we examine how they might direct blame to ethnic groups. We focus on the COVID‐19 pandemic, where the Trump administration sought to shift blame by scapegoating (using the term “Chinese virus”) and mitigate blame by positively framing performance information…
Burden tolerance: Developing a validated measurement instrument across seven countries
The emergence of the administrative burden literature has generated new theoretical, conceptual, and empirical knowledge. However, the accumulation of comparable knowledge is limited by the lack of validated measurement of core concepts. This article validates a four‐item scale of burden tolerance , that is, people's acceptance of state actions that impose administrative burdens on citizens and residents interacting with government, using data fr…
Gendered administrative burden: Regulating Gendered Bodies, Labor, and Identity
Gendered burdens are experiences of coercive and controlling state actions that directly regulate gendered bodies, labor, and identity. Burdens are not simply about preventing access to rights and benefits, they're about control and coercian. Gendered burdens generate gender inequality through four mechanisms. First, administrative burdens regulate reproductive bodies, legitimating the state’s direct control over reproductive health care, includi…
Populism and administrative dysfunction: The impact of U. S. government shutdowns on personnel and policy implementation
We examine the implications of anti‐statist populist leaders' inattention to competence and service delivery, and their embrace of a particular form of dysfunctional politics: government shutdowns. This paper explores the effects of US government shutdowns on agency policy implementation and personnel and using survey data from several hundred thousand federal employees. The first study gauges the effect of the 2018–2019 shutdown on specific elem…
Fewer Burdens but Greater Inequality? Reevaluating the Safety Net through the Lens of Administrative Burden
We examine changes in administrative burden in U.S. social safety net programs, or the negative encounters with the state that people experience when trying to access and use the benefits for which they are eligible. Existing theories equate targeted safety net policies, which sharply limit eligibility, as compared to universal policies, which have more expansive eligibility, with increased administrative burden. The past 30 years, however, tell …
Delegitimization, Deconstruction and Control: Undermining the Administrative State
Three phenomena that undermine the U.S. administrative state were taken to extremes under President Trump, contributing to democratic backsliding. The first is delegitimization: a suspicion of the public sector that has curdled into claims that public officials are deep state enemies of the people. This undermines belief in the capacity of government to deliver on democratic promises. Second is deconstruction, which includes undermining administr…
Trump’s (mis)management of the Covid-19 pandemic in the US
Digital resilience in wartime: The case of Ukraine
A key topic in digital government is how to improve public services. The global pandemic focused attention on the use of digital in the context of crisis. Here, we consider how a digital innovation in response to a different type of crisis, examining Ukraine's response to Russia's invasion of 2022. We describe how the government engaged in what we characterize as digital resilience, that is, the use of digital government capacities to maintain ba…
Administrative Burden Symposium: Introduction – Are we ‘administering inequality’ through our welfare systems
Over the past three decades social inequality has risen in almost all OECD countries, reaching historical highs. Social inequality is created and maintained not just by the specific focus or goals of particular policies, but by the norms, values and processes of our government institutions. This special issue looks at how administrative burden is constructed in a range of Australian social policy areas
Implementing the Expanded Child Tax Credit: What Worked, What Didn't, and How to Move Forward
The Child Tax Credit (CTC) expansion was an extraordinary experiment not just in policy design but also in policy implementation. As such, it cast light on the possibilities and blind spots of using the tax system to deliver safety-net benefits. The rapid and widespread take-up of the benefit reflected the use of a specific implementation tool that reduced administrative burden for the public: auto-enrollment via the tax system. But use of this t…
Does Managerial Use of Performance Information Matter to Organizational Outcomes
Public management scholars have made impressive strides in explaining managerial usage of performance information (PI). Does such PI use matter to performance? If so, what types of use make a difference? To answer these questions, we connect managerial self-reported behavior with objective organizational outcomes in Texas schools. We control for lagged comparative school performance and employ inverse probability weighting to mitigate endogeneity…
Your Face is Your Fortune: Does Adolescent Attractiveness Predict Intimate Relationships Later in Life
These findings highlight the importance of relationship context for later life sexual activity and begin to explicate the pathways through which factors across the life course-particularly attractiveness-influence sexual activity in later life
What Can Baseball Teach Us about Performance Management
What Can Baseball Teach Us about Performance Management
Organizational Effectiveness and Bureaucratic Red Tape: A Multimethod Study
Although many efforts to improve the effectiveness of government agencies target bureaucratic red tape, little academic work has evaluated the implications of red tape for organizational performance. This article proposes and tests a model of organizational effectiveness that explicitly accounts for red tape and the mitigating effect of organizational culture. This multimethod study uses both quantitative data from questionnaires and qualitative …
A Crisis of Authority? A Conversation with Alasdair Roberts about the Bush Years
Alasdair Roberts’s recent book The Collapse of Fortress Bush: The Crisis of Authority in American Government is an appraisal of the George W. Bush administration’s response to the 9/11 attacks and its management of the global war on terrorism. This war, Roberts argues, is a neoliberal war designed to accommodate assumptions about the boundaries of governmental action that became prevalent after Ronald Reagan’s election to the presidency in 1980. …
Red Tape and Democracy: How Rules Affect Citizenship Rights
Over the past 15 years, political science has paid increasing attention to the feedback effects of policy—the idea that the design of policies has profound effects on how citizens experience government and understand their role in the polity. One concept that is perfectly placed to explain how citizens experience administrative rules is red tape. But even as an impressive empirical scholarship on red tape has grown in recent years, it has focused…
Your Face is Your Fortune: Does Adolescent Attractiveness Predict Intimate Relationships Later in Life
These findings highlight the importance of relationship context for later life sexual activity and begin to explicate the pathways through which factors across the life course-particularly attractiveness-influence sexual activity in later life
A great schism approaching? Towards a micro and macro public administration
As an emerging field, behavioral public administration (BPA) has spurred important new research, documenting human biases and heuristics in public sector contexts. In doing so, it has embraced Herbert Simon's call to draw from psychology to understand administrative behavior. To fulfill its potential, BPA should also pursue another goal of Simon: a normative aspiration toward design science, using its powerful analytical techniques to solve, and …
JPART Virtual Issue on Citizen-State Interactions in Public Administration Research
In this virtual issue, we bring together a collection of research articles that—although not usually grouped together—all illustrate the importance of citizen-state interactions. Specifically, we include articles that directly incorporate citizens’ perceptions, attitudes, experiences of, or behavior related to public administration. About 10% of all JPART articles over the life of the journal so far (1991–2015) met our inclusion criteria. Of thos…
Behavioral Public Performance: How People Make Sense of Government Metrics
A revolution in the measurement and reporting of government performance through the use of published metrics, rankings and reports has swept the globe at all levels of government. Performance metrics now inform important decisions by politicians, public managers and citizens. However, this performance movement has neglected a second revolution in behavioral science that has revealed cognitive limitations and biases in people's identification, per…
Dysfunction by Design: Trumpism as Administrative Doctrine
The administration of President Donald Trump caused widespread damage to administrative capabilities of the American federal government. Actions of the administration can be attributed to several causes, including character weaknesses of the President himself, the disadvantages of a political insurgent, and the challenges faced by every president in an era of divided government. The actions of the administration also reflect a governing strategy …
Kafka’s Bureaucracy: Immigration Administrative Burdens in the Trump Era
What does a government do when it decides to make a public service as burdensome as possible? We consider this question in the context of immigration policy during the Trump administration. The case demonstrates the deliberate and governmentwide use of administrative burdens to make legal processes of immigration confusing, demanding, and stressful. Many of these changes occurred via what we characterize as formal administrative directives, a lev…
Administrative Burden Symposium: Introduction – Are we ‘administering inequality’ through our welfare systems
Over the past three decades social inequality has risen in almost all OECD countries, reaching historical highs. Social inequality is created and maintained not just by the specific focus or goals of particular policies, but by the norms, values and processes of our government institutions. This special issue looks at how administrative burden is constructed in a range of Australian social policy areas
Does Managerial Use of Performance Information Matter to Organizational Outcomes
Public management scholars have made impressive strides in explaining managerial usage of performance information (PI). Does such PI use matter to performance? If so, what types of use make a difference? To answer these questions, we connect managerial self-reported behavior with objective organizational outcomes in Texas schools. We control for lagged comparative school performance and employ inverse probability weighting to mitigate endogeneity…
Trump’s (mis)management of the Covid-19 pandemic in the US
Behavior and Burdens: Introduction to the Symposium on Behavioral Implications of Administrative Burden
The topic of administrative burden is relatively novel, but reflects people’s most common experiences of government: confusion about what is expected of them (learning costs), onerous processes (compliance costs), and associated emotions such as frustration (psychological cost). This symposium applies a behavioral perspective to the topic. We learn, for example, of the role of race and social constructions in people’s beliefs about burdens and th…
The politics of administrative burden
This chapter presents the administrative burden framework. This approach examines how people experience policy implementation as onerous in their interactions with the state, whether it be learning costs involved in finding out about public services, compliance costs like filling out forms, or psychological costs, such as stress, stigma or loss of autonomy. After introducing the concept of administrative burden, we address the politics of how bur…
Health in citizen‐state interactions: How physical and mental health problems shape experiences of administrative burden and reduce take‐up
Public services represent a key means by which societies seek to reduce inequalities. However, some people may experience administrative procedures as more burdensome than others, creating inequality within programs intended to be equity‐enhancing. Prior work has found human capital (e.g., education and conditions like scarcity) to affect burden and take‐up. We build on this by examining the role of health in the form of attention disorders, pain…
When blame avoidance backfires: Responses to performance framing and outgroup scapegoating during the Covid‐19 pandemic
Public officials use blame avoidance strategies when communicating performance information. While such strategies typically involve shifting blame to political opponents or other governments, we examine how they might direct blame to ethnic groups. We focus on the COVID‐19 pandemic, where the Trump administration sought to shift blame by scapegoating (using the term “Chinese virus”) and mitigate blame by positively framing performance information…
Matching to Categories: Learning and Compliance Costs in Administrative Processes
A perennial task for the state is the creation and policing of categories. State-created categories have real world impacts on the public. The consequences of racial categorizations, for example, are well-documented. We examine a less studied consequence of state categorization, which are the administrative burdens created when individuals attempt to match themselves to state-created categories. Matching requires time and effort, and failure to m…
The Unequal Distribution of Opportunity: A National Audit Study of Bureaucratic Discrimination in Primary School Access
Administrators can use their discretion to discriminate in the provision of public services via two mechanisms. They make decisions to allocate public services, allowing them to discriminate via allocative exclusion. They can also discriminate by targeting administrative burdens toward outgroups to make bureaucratic processes more onerous. While prior audit studies only examine the use of administrative burdens, we offer evidence of both mechanis…
Delegitimization, Deconstruction and Control: Undermining the Administrative State
Three phenomena that undermine the U.S. administrative state were taken to extremes under President Trump, contributing to democratic backsliding. The first is delegitimization: a suspicion of the public sector that has curdled into claims that public officials are deep state enemies of the people. This undermines belief in the capacity of government to deliver on democratic promises. Second is deconstruction, which includes undermining administr…
How difficult should it be? Evidence of burden tolerance from a nationally representative sample
There is growing attention to how policymakers and bureaucrats think about administrative burdens, but we know less about public tolerance for burdens. We examine public burden tolerance in two major programmes (Medicaid and SNAP) using a representative sample of US residents. We show broad support for work requirements and weaker support for generally making it difficult to access benefits. People with conservative beliefs, greater opposition to…
Digital resilience in wartime: The case of Ukraine
A key topic in digital government is how to improve public services. The global pandemic focused attention on the use of digital in the context of crisis. Here, we consider how a digital innovation in response to a different type of crisis, examining Ukraine's response to Russia's invasion of 2022. We describe how the government engaged in what we characterize as digital resilience, that is, the use of digital government capacities to maintain ba…
Populism and administrative dysfunction: The impact of U. S. government shutdowns on personnel and policy implementation
We examine the implications of anti‐statist populist leaders' inattention to competence and service delivery, and their embrace of a particular form of dysfunctional politics: government shutdowns. This paper explores the effects of US government shutdowns on agency policy implementation and personnel and using survey data from several hundred thousand federal employees. The first study gauges the effect of the 2018–2019 shutdown on specific elem…
Racialized Burdens: Applying Racialized Organization Theory to the Administrative State
This article develops the concept of racialized burdens as a means of examining the role of race in administrative practice. Racialized burdens are the experience of learning, compliance and psychological costs that serve as inequality reproducing mechanisms. To develop this concept, we examine administrative burdens in the US state from the theoretical perspective of racialized organizations. Using examples from attempts to access citizenship ri…
Implementing the Expanded Child Tax Credit: What Worked, What Didn't, and How to Move Forward
The Child Tax Credit (CTC) expansion was an extraordinary experiment not just in policy design but also in policy implementation. As such, it cast light on the possibilities and blind spots of using the tax system to deliver safety-net benefits. The rapid and widespread take-up of the benefit reflected the use of a specific implementation tool that reduced administrative burden for the public: auto-enrollment via the tax system. But use of this t…
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