Types of administrative burden reduction strategies: who, what, and how

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Benish, Avishai; Tarshish, Noam; Holler, Roni; Gal, John
• 署名单位: Hebrew University of Jerusalem; University of Haifa
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION RESEARCH AND THEORY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1053-1858
• DOI: 10.1093/jopart/muad028
• 发表日期: 2024
• 页码: 349-358
• 关键词: take-up; medicaid; state; DEMOCRACY; policies

摘要

This article contributes to the growing body of research on administrative burdens by providing a theoretically and empirically driven typology of governments' burden reduction strategies. Despite the mounting interest in burden reduction, the literature still lacks a typology for systematically identifying and classifying such strategies. The article identifies three analytical dimensions of burden reduction: distributive (who bears the burden), intensiveness (what the level of burden is), and relational (how burden is experienced in bureaucratic encounters). Based on these dimensions, and drawing on a systematic analysis of the case of social security in Israel, we identify, define, and characterize seven distinct strategies of burden reduction: shifting, sharing, discarding, simplifying, expediting, communicating, and respecting. The article concludes with a discussion of these strategies, their applicability, practical implications, and directions for the research agenda on burden reduction.