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Getting People To Tolerate Bad Outcomes:, John R. Hibbing
Getting People To Tolerate Bad Outcomes:, John R. Hibbing
Department of Political Science: Faculty Publications
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White Racial Attitudes And Support For The Mississippi State Flag, Byron D’Andra Orey
White Racial Attitudes And Support For The Mississippi State Flag, Byron D’Andra Orey
Department of Political Science: Faculty Publications
In recent years, there has been a dearth of literature documenting a relationship between old-fashioned racism and the vote for a racially conservative candidate or White opposition to various racial policies. In fact, a number of scholars have argued that a new racism has supplanted the old-fashioned racism. Analysis of a survey of college students in the state of Mississippi reveals that old-fashioned racism provides the strongest explanation of White support for the Mississippi state flag. These findings are startling given the educational levels of the respondents.
Accepting Authoritative Decisions: Humans As Wary Cooperators, John R. Hibbing, John R. Alford
Accepting Authoritative Decisions: Humans As Wary Cooperators, John R. Hibbing, John R. Alford
Department of Political Science: Faculty Publications
Why are people more willing to accept some governmental decisions than others? In this article, we present results from a series of original experiments showing that people’s reactions to a given outcome are heavily influenced by the procedure employed to produce the outcome.We find that subjects reactmuch less favorably when a decision maker intentionally keeps a large payoff, thereby leaving the subject with a small payoff, than when that same payoff results from a procedure based on chance or on desert. Moreover, subjects react less favorably to outcomes rendered by decision makers who want to be decision makers than they …