The Effect of Administrative Burden on Bureaucratic Perception of Policies: Evidence from Election Administration

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Burden, Barry C.; Canon, David T.; Mayer, Kenneth R.; Moynihan, Donald P.
• 署名单位: University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3352
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2012.02600.x
• 发表日期: 2012
• 页码: 741-751
• 关键词: management; DEMOCRACY; REFORM; hava

摘要

This article argues that administrative burden-that is, an individual's experience of policy implementation as onerous-is an important consideration for administrators and influences their views on policy and governance options. The authors test this proposition in the policy area of election administration using a mixed-method assessment of local election officials. They find that the perceived administrative burden of policies is associated with a preference to shift responsibilities to others, perceptions of greater flaws and lesser merit in policies that have created the burden (to the point that such judgments are demonstrably wrong), and opposition to related policy innovations.