Administrative Burden, Social Construction, and Public Support for Government Programs

• In Event: The Politics of Administrative Burdens: Evidence from Elected Officials, Mass Public and Street-level Bureaucrats

Brief Overview

We use a survey experiment to test how information about administrative burdens affect public support for programs that serve clients with negative and positive social constructions.

Authors

• Jill D. Nicholson-Crotty, Indiana University-Bloomington

• Lael Keiser, University of Missouri

• Susan Marie Miller, University of South Carolina