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Donovan, Todd. and Bowler, Shaun. "Reasoning about Political Reform: Experiments with the Psychology of Losing" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hilton Chicago and the Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL, Sep 02, 2004 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p60677_index.html>

Donovan, T. and Bowler, S. , 2004-09-02 "Reasoning about Political Reform: Experiments with the Psychology of Losing" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hilton Chicago and the Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p60677_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: This study assess how people reason about political institutions by examining the effects of winning and losing on support for institutional change. Our national-sample survey identified high levels of support for several proposals to alter America’s electoral institutions. We conducted random assignment experiments that tested hypotheses about reasoning derived from theories of risk perception. We found that people who see themselves as winners and losers in the electoral arena reason differently when proposals for change are presented with a risk of loss. Winners are more resistant to proposals for institutional change if proposals are framed as a risk of loss. Losers appear less sensitive to such risks, and may even be risk acceptant. The cumulative effect of electoral loss was also found to reduce satisfaction with democracy. We discuss what these findings might tell us about the stability of political institutions.

Decreasing Electoral Risk and Strategic Retirement to Avoid Losing Election: Survival Analysis of Legislators' (Political) Life at Systematically Dependent Competing Risks

Reasoning about Institutional Change: Losers’ Support for Electoral Reforms