N. Jensen and G. Rosas, “Open for Politics? Economic Globalization and Political Survival”, Journal of Experiments in Political Science, forthcoming.
Previous literature suggests that economic performance affects government approval asymmetrically, either because voters are quicker to blame incompetence than to credit ability (grievance asymmetry) or because they understand that the degree to which policy-makers can affect the economy varies depending on economic openness (clarity of responsibility asymmetry).