Does administrative burden create racialized policy feedback? How losing access to public benefits impacts beliefs about government (2024)

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Elizabeth Bell

LBJ School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin

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Austin, TX 78712

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James E Wright, II

Reubin O’D. Askew School of Public Administration and Policy, Florida State University

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Tallahassee, FL 32304

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Jeongmin Oh

Department of Political Science, Arkansas State University

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Jonesboro, AR 72401

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    Elizabeth Bell, James E Wright, Jeongmin Oh, Does administrative burden create racialized policy feedback? How losing access to public benefits impacts beliefs about government, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Volume 34, Issue 3, July 2024, Pages 432–447, https://doi.org/10.1093/jopart/muae004

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Abstract

Public trust and civic predisposition are cornerstones of well-functioning democratic societies, and burdensome citizen-state encounters may undermine positive views of government, especially for racially minoritized clientele. Leveraging insights from policy feedback theory, we argue that administrative burden has the potential to undermine trust in government and civic predisposition through two mechanisms: (1) interpretive effects: burdensome experiences that induce negative emotional responses and (2) resource effects: experiences of losing access to public benefits. In our OLS regression analysis of survey data from applicants for a means-tested public benefit program in the US (n = 2,250), we find that clients who lost access to benefits were significantly less likely to trust government, and these findings were driven by racially minoritized clients rather than White clients. Our findings demonstrate that experiences of administrative burden that result in the loss of public benefits may result in racialized policy feedback, by disproportionately reducing trust in government and civic predisposition for racially minoritized clientele.

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