Administrative burdens

Pam Herd and Donald Moynihan have been recognized with the 2026 Riccucci-O'Leary Award for the best article on diversity in public management, conferred by the Public Management Research Association (PRMA).

Administrative barriers are burdening the already disadvantaged Americans seeking life-saving benefits and aid, Ford School professor Pam Herd asserted in her Carol Kakalec Kohn Professor of Social Policy lecture.

Don Moynihan, J. Ira and Nicki Harris Family Professor of Public Policy and co-director of the Better Government Lab, received one of six stipends from the Accountability and Reform Research Consortium (AARC).

A recent evaluation led by University of Michigan professors Pamela Herd and Don Moynihan found that reducing administrative burdens by automating Medicaid renewals helps eligible beneficiaries remain in the program and increases Medicaid coverage fo...

In a recent opinion in The New York Times, "The Republican Plan to Bury Medicaid Beneficiaries in Paperwork," Don Moynihan and Pamela Herd shed light on the added administrative burdens hidden within the House budget bill.

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Eviction affects about 1 in 6 households in Michigan each year. Only 2% of tenants are represented by an attorney, placing the burden of understanding court processes and asserting legal rights on individual tenants. To brainstorm ways of tackling th...

Pamela Herd and Don Moynihan, faculty at the University of Michigan’s Ford School of Public Policy and co-founders of the Better Government Lab, address this issue in a new article published in the Journal of Economic Perspectives. They offer a compr...

EXPERT ADVISORY—Two Ford School experts are available to discuss the Trump administration's efforts to freeze federal loans and grants, firing special employees involved in prosecutions of the president and other actions.  Donald Moynihan, is a profe...

Sociologist Pamela Herd joined the Ford School faculty in September 2024 as the Carol Kakalec Kohn Professor of Social Policy. Her research focuses on inequality and how it interacts with policy issues including health, aging, and administrative burd...

Ford School professors Pamela Herd and Don Moynihan coauthored an article with Amy Widman for The Regulatory Review on why people are often unable to access what they are entitled to from the government and how to solve this problem. "Tens of billion...