A Replication of “Why Do Policymakers Support Administrative Burdens? The Roles of Deservingness, Political Ideology, and Personal Experience”
本文在佛兰德地区重复了Baekgaard等人的调查实验，发现政治意识形态和应得性信念影响地方官员对行政负担的容忍度，但效应量较小，其他结果未成功重复。
ABSTRACT This article replicates a survey experiment by Baekgaard, Moynihan, and Thomsen (2021), analyzing individual‐level differences as to why administrative burdens are constructed and imposed on individuals by policymakers. Administrative burdens are known to be consequential and distributive. So why do policymakers support them? Recent empirical studies provide us with motivations behind supporting or imposing administrative burdens, but few studies investigate whether these motivations translate across cultural and organizational settings. We opt for an as‐direct‐as‐possible replication in the Flemish setting, a case most likely to replicate results. In line with the original study, political ideology and personal beliefs about deservingness impact local politicians' burden tolerance. However, our effect sizes are much smaller. Other results fail to replicate in the Flemish setting. We explore the role of organizational size and elaborate on how comparative replication studies can help to shed light on the effect of context in public administration.