The effect of accumulated losses on perceptions of legitimacy

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• dc.contributor.author Kern, Anna
• dc.contributor.author Marien, Sofie
• dc.contributor.author Muradova, Lala
• dc.date.accessioned 2024-03-25T06:59:37Z
• dc.date.available 2024-03-25T06:59:37Z
• dc.date.issued 2024
• dc.description Includes supplementary materials for the online appendix.
• dc.description.abstract How do citizens react to repeated losses in politics? This paper argues that experiencing accumulated losses creates strong incentives to externalize responsibility for these losses to the decision-making procedure, which can, in turn, erode legitimacy perceptions among the public. Using a survey experiment (N = 2,146) simulating accumulated losses in a series of direct votes among Irish citizens, we find that decision acceptance and the perceived legitimacy of the decision-making procedure diminish with every loss. Three accumulated losses depress the perceived legitimacy of the political system. These effects are mediated by procedural fairness perceptions, suggesting that even when democratic procedures are used, accumulated losses can induce a belief that the process and system are rigged.
• dc.description.sponsorship This project has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement n° 759736) as well as Research Foundation – Flanders (Belgium) (FWO, file n° 40370). Lala Muradova also wishes to thank the Research Foundation – Flanders (Belgium) (FWO, Grant agreement n° 759736). We wish to thank André Bächtiger, Peter Essaiasson, David Farrell, Ross James Gildea, Peter Miller, Jane Suiter, the participants of the 2019 ECPR General Conference (Wroclaw), the KU Leuven Democratic Innovations and Legitimacy research group seminar and the UGent CLP-GASPAR seminar for their valuable input on the experimental design and the manuscript.
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• dc.identifier.citation Kern A, Marien S, Muradova L. The effect of accumulated losses on perceptions of legitimacy. Eur Pol Sci Rev. 2024 Jan 25;1-18. DOI: 10.1017/s175577392300036x
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s175577392300036x
• dc.identifier.issn 1755-7739
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/59547
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Cambridge University Press
• dc.relation.ispartof European Political Science Review. 2024 Jan 25;1-18
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/759736
• dc.rights © The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of European Consortium for Political Research. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited.
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• dc.rights.uri http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• dc.subject.keyword Procedural fairness
• dc.subject.keyword Referendum
• dc.subject.keyword Experiment
• dc.subject.keyword Political trust
• dc.subject.keyword Satisfaction with democracy
• dc.subject.keyword Democratic innovation
• dc.title The effect of accumulated losses on perceptions of legitimacy
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