Abstract

Administrative burdens affect peoples’ experience of public administration but there is, to date, limited evidence to as why policymakers are willing to accept and impose burdens. To address this gap, we draw from the policy design and administrative burden literatures to develop the concept of burden tolerance—the willingness of policymakers and people more generally to passively allow or actively impose state actions that result in others experiencing administrative burdens. Drawing on a survey experiment and observational data with Danish local politicians in a social welfare setting, we find that more right-wing politicians are more tolerant of burdens, but politicians are less willing to impose burdens on a welfare claimant perceived as being more deserving. Politicians with a personal experience of receiving welfare benefits themselves are less tolerant of burdens, while information about the psychological costs experienced by claimants did not reduce burden tolerance.

中文翻译：

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政策制定者为何支持行政负担？值得，政治思想和个人经验的作用

摘要

行政负担影响人们的公共行政经验，但迄今为止，证据有限，无法说明决策者为什么愿意接受并施加负担。为了解决这一差距，我们从政策设计和行政负担文献中汲取了耐力承受的概念，即决策者和人们更愿意被动地允许或积极施加导致其他人承受行政负担的国家行动。借助在社会福利背景下与丹麦当地政客进行的调查实验和观察数据，我们发现，更多右翼政客更能承受负担，但政客不愿意将负担施加给被认为更应得的福利索赔人。