Because policy change is rare, preferring the status quo yields higher congruence

Evidence

As policies are the same for all income groups, the incongruent categories (B and C) are mirror images of the congruent categories (differences are due to rounding). … Summing columns C and D provides the general preference for policy change, which is 5.6 percentage points lower for the top income group compared to the bottom. As policy change rarely happens (B + D = 16.6%), greater satisfaction with the status quo is likely to be associated with higher congruence. — Mikael Persson and Anders Sundell, Blocking the Poor, 71

Categorization

• XREF: Connects directly to the status quo bias literature the chapter title invokes, and to any work on default effects in institutional design.