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 U.S. (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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行政负担是否会造成种族化的政策反馈？失去公共福利如何影响对政府的信念

公众信任和公民倾向是运作良好的民主社会的基石，繁琐的公民与国家的接触可能会破坏政府的积极看法，特别是对于少数种族的客户而言。利用政策反馈理论的见解，我们认为行政负担有可能通过两种机制破坏对政府的信任和公民倾向：1）解释效应：导致负面情绪反应的繁重经历；2）资源效应：失去获得资源的经历。公共福利。在我们对美国经济状况调查公共福利计划申请人的调查数据（n=2,250）进行 OLS 回归分析中，我们发现失去福利的客户信任政府的可能性显着降低，而这些发现的驱动因素是少数族裔客户而不是白人客户。我们的研究结果表明，导致公共福利损失的行政负担的经历可能会导致种族化的政策反馈，因为这会不成比例地降低少数种族客户对政府的信任和公民的倾向。