Communication · Executive Insight Brief · 511
Three uploads and still no benefit
Administrative Burden reveals how the cost of learning, complying, and enduring public-service encounters can prevent eligible people from receiving benefits
Premise
A person may qualify for a public service yet fail to access it. Notices, verification demands, waiting, and intimidating encounters can impose costs that formal eligibility rules never display. Administrative Burden makes the experienced route through government part of the policy rather than an incidental customer-service detail.
Senior officials should separate three kinds of access costs and assign responsibility for their production. A clearer website will not eliminate duplicate evidence requirements; fewer documents will not necessarily repair stigma or fear. The relevant question is who carries each cost and whether it is justified.
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Editorial orientation · Family
Model
In this series, Model names the editorial family primarily used to understand and explain communication: theories, frameworks, effects, traditions, principles and other conceptual resources. It is an umbrella for a route into the field, not a claim that every included object is a predictive model.
Editorial orientation · Category
Analytical Frameworks, Typologies & Heuristics
Organizes dimensions, distinctions, types or questions so that a situation can be examined systematically. A framework supplies structure, a typology distinguishes forms, and a heuristic offers a usable way to orient judgment.
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