Open for Politics? Globalization, Economic Growth, and Responsibility Attribution
Open for Politics? Globalization, Economic Growth, and Responsibility Attribution
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开放政治？
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发表时间：
2019
影响因子：
3.6
通讯作者：
Guillermo Rosas
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作者：
Nathan M. Jensen;Guillermo Rosas
先前的文献表明，经济表现对政府认可度的影响是不对称的，要么是因为选民更容易指责无能而不是信用能力（不满不对称），要么是因为他们明白政策制定者影响经济的程度取决于经济开放程度（责任不对称的清晰度）。我们试图了解这些不对称是否共存，认为这些理论共同暗示全球化可能有能力减轻对不良结果的指责，但既不应该促进也不应该减少对政策制定者的良好经济结果的信贷。我们在 2014 年和 2015 年在美国和加拿大进行的三项调查实验中寻找这些不对称的证据。我们发现了充足的实验证据来支持不满不对称，但我们的结果在经济开放对责备减轻的影响方面好坏参半，有一些证据表明这种现象发生在美国，但在加拿大却没有。
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). We seek to understand whether these asymmetries coexist, arguing that these theories conjointly imply that globalization may have the capacity to mitigate blame for bad outcomes but should neither promote nor reduce credit to policy-makers for good economic outcomes. We look for evidence of these asymmetries in three survey experiments carried out in the USA and Canada in 2014 and 2015. We find ample experimental evidence in support of the grievance asymmetry, but our results are mixed on the impact of economic openness on blame mitigation, with some evidence of this phenomenon in the USA, but not in Canada.