Pierre-Marc Daigneault
Biographic Data
| ID | 340575 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pierre-Marc Daigneault |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pierre-Marc |
| FAMILY NAME | Daigneault |
| SIGNATURE | DAIGNEAULT P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université Laval |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7822-722X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 158 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
How effective are behavioral interventions to increase the take‐up of social benefits? A systematic review of field experiments
Non‐take‐up of social benefits is a significant policy issue caused by factors such as lack of awareness, compliance costs, and stigma. While public information campaigns, default options, and in‐person assistance are increasingly used, their effectiveness remains poorly understood. This study provides a systematic review of field experiments evaluating nudges and simple behavioral interventions on program take‐up. We analyzed 93 interventions fr…
Measuring Administrative Burden: Bringing the State “Back in” as a Reflexive Actor in Burden Reduction
This study examines how governments measure administrative burdens in citizen–state interactions. Although scholarly interest in the burden framework has grown, little is known about how states themselves track and reduce these costs. A scoping review of 38 academic and gray sources, complemented by interviews with 11 experts, identifies six measurement approaches currently in use. An analysis of their indicators and data shows that all six captu…
Administrative Burden Revisited: Advancing Research and Practice
Reconceptualizing Administrative Burden Around Onerous Experiences
Despite ongoing discussions on the need to improve the conceptualization and measurement of administrative burden, several conceptual problems remain. This study offers the first systematic analysis and evaluation of this increasingly central public management concept. Using an ontological-semantic approach, I show that the current conceptualization fails to fully and directly account for individuals’ onerous experiences. I address five interrela…
From state actions to citizens outcomes: Introduction to the special issue on “Administrative Burden and Social Welfare”
Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no new data were created or analyzed in this study
Le fardeau administratif dans tous ses états: Saisir les interactions entre les individus et les institutions publiques
Le fardeau administratif renvoie au phénomène selon lequel la mise en œuvre des politiques publiques et, plus généralement, les interactions avec l’État, sont coûteuses et difficiles. Chaque personne est en effet confrontée à des coûts d'apprentissage lorsqu'elle acquiert de l'information sur les programmes et services publics, à des coûts de conformité lorsqu'elle tente de satisfaire à leurs règles, et à des coûts psychologiques (stress, etc.) l…
Taking subnational and regional welfare states seriously: Insights from the Quebec case
Most quantitative, comparative welfare state research assumes that subnational welfare regimes are irrelevant or identical to their national counterparts. Many qualitative case studies, on the other hand, have underlined the differences between subnational and national regimes. In this article, we attempt to build bridges between these two strands of literature by examining the case for a Quebec model, that is, a subnational welfare state regime …
Program Awareness, Administrative Burden, and Non-Take-Up of Québec’s Supplement to the Work Premium
Program take-up is a necessary condition for program effectiveness. Yet, non-take-up is a significant challenge for many social programs, including Québec’s Supplement to the Work Premium (SWP), a refundable tax credit targeted toward long-term welfare clients. Based on interviews with 21 public actors and 46 program participants and nonparticipants, this study explains how low program awareness, the low value of the benefit and the significant a…
L’adoption et le suivi de la performance d’une mesure interministérielle: Le cas du Supplément à la prime au travail
Sommaire La gestion horizontale pose des enjeux significatifs, en particulier en ce qui a trait au suivi et à l’évaluation de la performance des programmes publics. Cette étude de cas porte sur le Supplément à la prime au travail (SPT), une mesure sociofiscale de type interministériel, qui n’a fait l’objet d’aucune évaluation de sa performance depuis son introduction en 2008. À partir d’entretiens qualitatifs avec des acteurs publics, nous tenton…
Vécu et rapport au travail des prestataires d'assistance sociale de longue durée1
Dans un contexte où les politiques d'aide financière de dernier recours visent de plus en plus la réintégration au marché du travail, cette étude qualitative traite de l'expérience des prestataires d'assistance sociale (AS) de longue durée au Québec ainsi que de leur rapport au travail. Les analyses d'entretiens semi-dirigés auprès de 46 prestataires et ex-prestataires ayant effectué une transition vers le travail mettent en lumière les nombreux …
Pour un postdoctorat réussi: Les douze pièges à éviter1
Le postdoctorat est de plus en plus populaire auprès des doctorants et des nouveaux docteurs en science politique qui aspirent à une carrière universitaire pour laquelle il y a beaucoup d’appelés et peu d’élus. Mais comment obtenir du financement postdoctoral et réussir son postdoctorat ? Je réponds à cette question à partir de mon expérience personnelle. Après avoir présenté les différents types de postdoctorat, je discute des « pièges » à évite…
Taking Explanation Seriously in Political Science
The concept of ‘explanation’ has attracted considerable attention in the social sciences, and particularly within political science. However, scholars are not always familiar with what explaining political phenomena means, let alone with what it entails for developing sound causal arguments. This article introduces Craig Parsons’ typology of explanation before assessing its value for the causal analysis of political behaviour and processes. As ar…
Ideas and Welfare Reform in Saskatchewan: Entitlement, Workfare or Activation
Many provinces have enacted substantial reforms of their social assistance regime in the 1990s. However, we know surprisingly little about the ideas that underlie welfare reform in Canada. In particular, few empirical studies have directly examined the ideas of policy actors. This article presents a retrospective case study of a major policy initiative, namely Saskatchewan'sBuilding Independence(BI), and examines its alignment with three paradigm…
Reassessing the concept of policy paradigm: Aligning Ontology and Methodology in Policy Studies
The concept of policy paradigm, which was developed by Peter Hall (1993), has given rise to an abundance of literature on ideas and policy dynamics. Despite its theoretical value, however, the original concept was insufficiently specified and has been used in problematic ways by many policy scholars, thereby undermining the validity of their descriptive and causal inferences. The main argument defended in this article is that scholars studying po…
Puzzling about policy paradigms: Precision and Progress
KEY WORDS: Ideasideational approachmethodologypolicy dynamicspolicy theoryparadigm shift. Baumgartner, Sebastiaan Princen and Paul 't Hart for their invaluable participation in it. I thank Daniel Béland for his comments on this reply and Sara McPhee-Knowles for linguistic revision. Postdoctoral funding from the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture and the Canada Research Chair on Public Policy, Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Publ…
Three Paradigms of Social Assistance
Ideas," which are defined as the normative and cognitive beliefs of actors, are fundamental to a full understanding of the welfare state and, in particular, of social assistance. However, policy ideas have been neglected in most typologies of social assistance regimes. Based on a selective review of the literature, this article proposes a brief but systematic analysis of policy paradigms in the field of social assistance. Three ideal types that e…
Unexpected but Most Welcome: Mixed Methods for the Validation and Revision of the Participatory Evaluation Measurement Instrument
Although combining methods is nothing new, more contributions about why and how to mix methods for validation purposes are needed. This article presents a case of validating the inferences drawn from the Participatory Evaluation Measurement Instrument, an instrument that purports to measure stakeholder participation in evaluation. Although the process was intended to be almost exclusively quantitative, one of its components unexpectedly turned in…
The Blind Men and the Elephant: A Metaphor to Illuminate the Role of Researchers and Reviewers in Social Science
There has recently been a tremendous growth in systematic literature review methods in social science, which may create confusion as to the role of researchers and reviewers. I argue that the tale of the Blind men and the elephants is a metaphor that illuminates the elusive nature of reality and the work of both primary researchers and various types of reviewers. The value of the metaphor is illustrated with a case drawn from the field of policy …
Introduction to the symposium ‘Conceptual analysis in political science and beyond’
Using systematic review methods within a Ph.D. dissertation in political science: Challenges and lessons learned from practice
Systematic review and synthesis methods have gained wide acceptance within the social sciences and, as a result, many postgraduate students now consider using them for their thesis or dissertation research. However, students are rarely aware of all the concrete implications that their decision entails. This reflective narrative reports the experience of a political science student who began to conduct a systematic review as part of his Ph.D. diss…
Les concepts souffrent-ils de négligence bénigne en sciences sociales? Eléments d'analyse conceptuelle et examen exploratoire de la littérature francophone à caractère méthodologique
Concepts are essential to any scientific endeavour aimed at 'discovering' the nature of 'reality'. Yet, concepts and their analysis have received scant attention from scholars as objects worth studying and teaching in and of themselves, especially in comparison to data collection and analysis techniques. When scholars venture into analyzing concepts, they generally proceed informally, thereby raising serious concerns in terms of the validity of t…
Concepts and Method in Social Science: The Tradition of Giovanni Sartori, sous la dir. de David Collier et John Gerring, New York, Routledge, 2009, 368 p
Concepts and Method in Social Science : The Tradition of Giovanni Sartori, sous la dir. de David Collier et John Gerring, New York, Routledge, 2009, 368 p.. Un article de la revue Politique et Sociétés (La politique de la reconnaissance et la théorie critique) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Toward Accurate Measurement of Participation: Rethinking the Conceptualization and Operationalization of Participatory Evaluation
While participatory evaluation (PE) constitutes an important trend in the field of evaluation, its ontology has not been systematically analyzed. As a result, the concept of PE is ambiguous and inadequately theorized. Furthermore, no existing instrument accurately measures stakeholder participation. First, this article attempts to overcome these problems by using the works of G. Goertz (2006) and J. Gerring (1999) on concept formation and evaluat…
L’examen de la qualité des évaluations fédérales: Une méta-évaluation réussie
Evaluation quality is a fundamental issue within the evidence-based management and policy movement. The Treasury Board Secretariat of Canada (TBS) conducted a wide-ranging review of the quality of federal evaluations in 2004. In terms of its relevance and methodology and the credibility of its conclusions, is the meta-evaluation a success? This article answers the question by presenting an evaluation of the TBS quality review. Despite serious sho…
Une constitution formelle pour le Québec: Mais Qu'attendons-Nous
Reassessing the concept of policy paradigm: Aligning Ontology and Methodology in Policy Studies
The concept of policy paradigm, which was developed by Peter Hall (1993), has given rise to an abundance of literature on ideas and policy dynamics. Despite its theoretical value, however, the original concept was insufficiently specified and has been used in problematic ways by many policy scholars, thereby undermining the validity of their descriptive and causal inferences. The main argument defended in this article is that scholars studying po…
Taking subnational and regional welfare states seriously: Insights from the Quebec case
Most quantitative, comparative welfare state research assumes that subnational welfare regimes are irrelevant or identical to their national counterparts. Many qualitative case studies, on the other hand, have underlined the differences between subnational and national regimes. In this article, we attempt to build bridges between these two strands of literature by examining the case for a Quebec model, that is, a subnational welfare state regime …
Toward Accurate Measurement of Participation: Rethinking the Conceptualization and Operationalization of Participatory Evaluation
While participatory evaluation (PE) constitutes an important trend in the field of evaluation, its ontology has not been systematically analyzed. As a result, the concept of PE is ambiguous and inadequately theorized. Furthermore, no existing instrument accurately measures stakeholder participation. First, this article attempts to overcome these problems by using the works of G. Goertz (2006) and J. Gerring (1999) on concept formation and evaluat…
Taking Explanation Seriously in Political Science
The concept of ‘explanation’ has attracted considerable attention in the social sciences, and particularly within political science. However, scholars are not always familiar with what explaining political phenomena means, let alone with what it entails for developing sound causal arguments. This article introduces Craig Parsons’ typology of explanation before assessing its value for the causal analysis of political behaviour and processes. As ar…
Ideas and Welfare Reform in Saskatchewan: Entitlement, Workfare or Activation
Many provinces have enacted substantial reforms of their social assistance regime in the 1990s. However, we know surprisingly little about the ideas that underlie welfare reform in Canada. In particular, few empirical studies have directly examined the ideas of policy actors. This article presents a retrospective case study of a major policy initiative, namely Saskatchewan'sBuilding Independence(BI), and examines its alignment with three paradigm…
Using systematic review methods within a Ph.D. dissertation in political science: Challenges and lessons learned from practice
Systematic review and synthesis methods have gained wide acceptance within the social sciences and, as a result, many postgraduate students now consider using them for their thesis or dissertation research. However, students are rarely aware of all the concrete implications that their decision entails. This reflective narrative reports the experience of a political science student who began to conduct a systematic review as part of his Ph.D. diss…
Three Paradigms of Social Assistance
Ideas," which are defined as the normative and cognitive beliefs of actors, are fundamental to a full understanding of the welfare state and, in particular, of social assistance. However, policy ideas have been neglected in most typologies of social assistance regimes. Based on a selective review of the literature, this article proposes a brief but systematic analysis of policy paradigms in the field of social assistance. Three ideal types that e…
Puzzling about policy paradigms: Precision and Progress
KEY WORDS: Ideasideational approachmethodologypolicy dynamicspolicy theoryparadigm shift. Baumgartner, Sebastiaan Princen and Paul 't Hart for their invaluable participation in it. I thank Daniel Béland for his comments on this reply and Sara McPhee-Knowles for linguistic revision. Postdoctoral funding from the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture and the Canada Research Chair on Public Policy, Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Publ…
Unexpected but Most Welcome: Mixed Methods for the Validation and Revision of the Participatory Evaluation Measurement Instrument
Although combining methods is nothing new, more contributions about why and how to mix methods for validation purposes are needed. This article presents a case of validating the inferences drawn from the Participatory Evaluation Measurement Instrument, an instrument that purports to measure stakeholder participation in evaluation. Although the process was intended to be almost exclusively quantitative, one of its components unexpectedly turned in…
Les concepts souffrent-ils de négligence bénigne en sciences sociales? Eléments d'analyse conceptuelle et examen exploratoire de la littérature francophone à caractère méthodologique
Concepts are essential to any scientific endeavour aimed at 'discovering' the nature of 'reality'. Yet, concepts and their analysis have received scant attention from scholars as objects worth studying and teaching in and of themselves, especially in comparison to data collection and analysis techniques. When scholars venture into analyzing concepts, they generally proceed informally, thereby raising serious concerns in terms of the validity of t…
Administrative Burden Revisited: Advancing Research and Practice
Le fardeau administratif dans tous ses états: Saisir les interactions entre les individus et les institutions publiques
Le fardeau administratif renvoie au phénomène selon lequel la mise en œuvre des politiques publiques et, plus généralement, les interactions avec l’État, sont coûteuses et difficiles. Chaque personne est en effet confrontée à des coûts d'apprentissage lorsqu'elle acquiert de l'information sur les programmes et services publics, à des coûts de conformité lorsqu'elle tente de satisfaire à leurs règles, et à des coûts psychologiques (stress, etc.) l…
L’adoption et le suivi de la performance d’une mesure interministérielle: Le cas du Supplément à la prime au travail
Sommaire La gestion horizontale pose des enjeux significatifs, en particulier en ce qui a trait au suivi et à l’évaluation de la performance des programmes publics. Cette étude de cas porte sur le Supplément à la prime au travail (SPT), une mesure sociofiscale de type interministériel, qui n’a fait l’objet d’aucune évaluation de sa performance depuis son introduction en 2008. À partir d’entretiens qualitatifs avec des acteurs publics, nous tenton…
Vécu et rapport au travail des prestataires d'assistance sociale de longue durée1
Dans un contexte où les politiques d'aide financière de dernier recours visent de plus en plus la réintégration au marché du travail, cette étude qualitative traite de l'expérience des prestataires d'assistance sociale (AS) de longue durée au Québec ainsi que de leur rapport au travail. Les analyses d'entretiens semi-dirigés auprès de 46 prestataires et ex-prestataires ayant effectué une transition vers le travail mettent en lumière les nombreux …
Une constitution formelle pour le Québec: Mais Qu'attendons-Nous
L’examen de la qualité des évaluations fédérales: Une méta-évaluation réussie
Evaluation quality is a fundamental issue within the evidence-based management and policy movement. The Treasury Board Secretariat of Canada (TBS) conducted a wide-ranging review of the quality of federal evaluations in 2004. In terms of its relevance and methodology and the credibility of its conclusions, is the meta-evaluation a success? This article answers the question by presenting an evaluation of the TBS quality review. Despite serious sho…
Concepts and Method in Social Science: The Tradition of Giovanni Sartori, sous la dir. de David Collier et John Gerring, New York, Routledge, 2009, 368 p
Concepts and Method in Social Science : The Tradition of Giovanni Sartori, sous la dir. de David Collier et John Gerring, New York, Routledge, 2009, 368 p.. Un article de la revue Politique et Sociétés (La politique de la reconnaissance et la théorie critique) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit
Toward Accurate Measurement of Participation: Rethinking the Conceptualization and Operationalization of Participatory Evaluation
While participatory evaluation (PE) constitutes an important trend in the field of evaluation, its ontology has not been systematically analyzed. As a result, the concept of PE is ambiguous and inadequately theorized. Furthermore, no existing instrument accurately measures stakeholder participation. First, this article attempts to overcome these problems by using the works of G. Goertz (2006) and J. Gerring (1999) on concept formation and evaluat…
Introduction to the symposium ‘Conceptual analysis in political science and beyond’
Using systematic review methods within a Ph.D. dissertation in political science: Challenges and lessons learned from practice
Systematic review and synthesis methods have gained wide acceptance within the social sciences and, as a result, many postgraduate students now consider using them for their thesis or dissertation research. However, students are rarely aware of all the concrete implications that their decision entails. This reflective narrative reports the experience of a political science student who began to conduct a systematic review as part of his Ph.D. diss…
Les concepts souffrent-ils de négligence bénigne en sciences sociales? Eléments d'analyse conceptuelle et examen exploratoire de la littérature francophone à caractère méthodologique
Concepts are essential to any scientific endeavour aimed at 'discovering' the nature of 'reality'. Yet, concepts and their analysis have received scant attention from scholars as objects worth studying and teaching in and of themselves, especially in comparison to data collection and analysis techniques. When scholars venture into analyzing concepts, they generally proceed informally, thereby raising serious concerns in terms of the validity of t…
Unexpected but Most Welcome: Mixed Methods for the Validation and Revision of the Participatory Evaluation Measurement Instrument
Although combining methods is nothing new, more contributions about why and how to mix methods for validation purposes are needed. This article presents a case of validating the inferences drawn from the Participatory Evaluation Measurement Instrument, an instrument that purports to measure stakeholder participation in evaluation. Although the process was intended to be almost exclusively quantitative, one of its components unexpectedly turned in…
The Blind Men and the Elephant: A Metaphor to Illuminate the Role of Researchers and Reviewers in Social Science
There has recently been a tremendous growth in systematic literature review methods in social science, which may create confusion as to the role of researchers and reviewers. I argue that the tale of the Blind men and the elephants is a metaphor that illuminates the elusive nature of reality and the work of both primary researchers and various types of reviewers. The value of the metaphor is illustrated with a case drawn from the field of policy …
Reassessing the concept of policy paradigm: Aligning Ontology and Methodology in Policy Studies
The concept of policy paradigm, which was developed by Peter Hall (1993), has given rise to an abundance of literature on ideas and policy dynamics. Despite its theoretical value, however, the original concept was insufficiently specified and has been used in problematic ways by many policy scholars, thereby undermining the validity of their descriptive and causal inferences. The main argument defended in this article is that scholars studying po…
Puzzling about policy paradigms: Precision and Progress
KEY WORDS: Ideasideational approachmethodologypolicy dynamicspolicy theoryparadigm shift. Baumgartner, Sebastiaan Princen and Paul 't Hart for their invaluable participation in it. I thank Daniel Béland for his comments on this reply and Sara McPhee-Knowles for linguistic revision. Postdoctoral funding from the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture and the Canada Research Chair on Public Policy, Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Publ…
Three Paradigms of Social Assistance
Ideas," which are defined as the normative and cognitive beliefs of actors, are fundamental to a full understanding of the welfare state and, in particular, of social assistance. However, policy ideas have been neglected in most typologies of social assistance regimes. Based on a selective review of the literature, this article proposes a brief but systematic analysis of policy paradigms in the field of social assistance. Three ideal types that e…
Taking Explanation Seriously in Political Science
The concept of ‘explanation’ has attracted considerable attention in the social sciences, and particularly within political science. However, scholars are not always familiar with what explaining political phenomena means, let alone with what it entails for developing sound causal arguments. This article introduces Craig Parsons’ typology of explanation before assessing its value for the causal analysis of political behaviour and processes. As ar…
Ideas and Welfare Reform in Saskatchewan: Entitlement, Workfare or Activation
Many provinces have enacted substantial reforms of their social assistance regime in the 1990s. However, we know surprisingly little about the ideas that underlie welfare reform in Canada. In particular, few empirical studies have directly examined the ideas of policy actors. This article presents a retrospective case study of a major policy initiative, namely Saskatchewan'sBuilding Independence(BI), and examines its alignment with three paradigm…
Pour un postdoctorat réussi: Les douze pièges à éviter1
Le postdoctorat est de plus en plus populaire auprès des doctorants et des nouveaux docteurs en science politique qui aspirent à une carrière universitaire pour laquelle il y a beaucoup d’appelés et peu d’élus. Mais comment obtenir du financement postdoctoral et réussir son postdoctorat ? Je réponds à cette question à partir de mon expérience personnelle. Après avoir présenté les différents types de postdoctorat, je discute des « pièges » à évite…
Vécu et rapport au travail des prestataires d'assistance sociale de longue durée1
Dans un contexte où les politiques d'aide financière de dernier recours visent de plus en plus la réintégration au marché du travail, cette étude qualitative traite de l'expérience des prestataires d'assistance sociale (AS) de longue durée au Québec ainsi que de leur rapport au travail. Les analyses d'entretiens semi-dirigés auprès de 46 prestataires et ex-prestataires ayant effectué une transition vers le travail mettent en lumière les nombreux …
Program Awareness, Administrative Burden, and Non-Take-Up of Québec’s Supplement to the Work Premium
Program take-up is a necessary condition for program effectiveness. Yet, non-take-up is a significant challenge for many social programs, including Québec’s Supplement to the Work Premium (SWP), a refundable tax credit targeted toward long-term welfare clients. Based on interviews with 21 public actors and 46 program participants and nonparticipants, this study explains how low program awareness, the low value of the benefit and the significant a…
L’adoption et le suivi de la performance d’une mesure interministérielle: Le cas du Supplément à la prime au travail
Sommaire La gestion horizontale pose des enjeux significatifs, en particulier en ce qui a trait au suivi et à l’évaluation de la performance des programmes publics. Cette étude de cas porte sur le Supplément à la prime au travail (SPT), une mesure sociofiscale de type interministériel, qui n’a fait l’objet d’aucune évaluation de sa performance depuis son introduction en 2008. À partir d’entretiens qualitatifs avec des acteurs publics, nous tenton…
Taking subnational and regional welfare states seriously: Insights from the Quebec case
Most quantitative, comparative welfare state research assumes that subnational welfare regimes are irrelevant or identical to their national counterparts. Many qualitative case studies, on the other hand, have underlined the differences between subnational and national regimes. In this article, we attempt to build bridges between these two strands of literature by examining the case for a Quebec model, that is, a subnational welfare state regime …
Reconceptualizing Administrative Burden Around Onerous Experiences
Despite ongoing discussions on the need to improve the conceptualization and measurement of administrative burden, several conceptual problems remain. This study offers the first systematic analysis and evaluation of this increasingly central public management concept. Using an ontological-semantic approach, I show that the current conceptualization fails to fully and directly account for individuals’ onerous experiences. I address five interrela…
From state actions to citizens outcomes: Introduction to the special issue on “Administrative Burden and Social Welfare”
Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no new data were created or analyzed in this study
Le fardeau administratif dans tous ses états: Saisir les interactions entre les individus et les institutions publiques
Le fardeau administratif renvoie au phénomène selon lequel la mise en œuvre des politiques publiques et, plus généralement, les interactions avec l’État, sont coûteuses et difficiles. Chaque personne est en effet confrontée à des coûts d'apprentissage lorsqu'elle acquiert de l'information sur les programmes et services publics, à des coûts de conformité lorsqu'elle tente de satisfaire à leurs règles, et à des coûts psychologiques (stress, etc.) l…
How effective are behavioral interventions to increase the take‐up of social benefits? A systematic review of field experiments
Non‐take‐up of social benefits is a significant policy issue caused by factors such as lack of awareness, compliance costs, and stigma. While public information campaigns, default options, and in‐person assistance are increasingly used, their effectiveness remains poorly understood. This study provides a systematic review of field experiments evaluating nudges and simple behavioral interventions on program take‐up. We analyzed 93 interventions fr…
Measuring Administrative Burden: Bringing the State “Back in” as a Reflexive Actor in Burden Reduction
This study examines how governments measure administrative burdens in citizen–state interactions. Although scholarly interest in the burden framework has grown, little is known about how states themselves track and reduce these costs. A scoping review of 38 academic and gray sources, complemented by interviews with 11 experts, identifies six measurement approaches currently in use. An analysis of their indicators and data shows that all six captu…
Administrative Burden Revisited: Advancing Research and Practice
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