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100			_aBaekgaard, Martin Döring, Matthias and Thomsen, Mette Kjærgaard _953747
245			_aIt's not merely about the content: How rules are communicated matters to administrative burden
260			_aPublic Administration Review
300			_a85(1), Jan-Feb, 2025: p.107-127
520			_aResearch suggests that citizens often abstain from taking up benefits for which they are eligible because of the costs of learning about how to apply for and the compliance and psychological costs associated with taking up benefits. But to what extent can such burdens be altered simply by changing the way rules are communicated? Bridging literatures on administrative burden, communication theory, and cognitive psychology, we theorize and test the causal impact (using a pre-registered randomized survey experiment (N = 2243)) of two prominent aspects of rule communication: information structure and bureaucratic language. Our findings lend support to the expectation that bureaucratic language influences citizens' learning costs as well as their compliance – and to a lesser extent psychological – costs, even when the content of the rules communicated is the same.- Reproduced https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/puar.13751
773			_aPublic Administration Review
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