Gabriele Gratton
@grattonecon.bsky.social
Professor of Politics and Economics, UNSW Sydney. ARC Future Fellow
http://gratton.org
http://resilientdemocracylab.org
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http://gratton.org
http://resilientdemocracylab.org
For rocks&cats: http://instagram.com/prof_not_pro
Less than two weeks to the 3rd UNSW Resilient Democracy Lab workshop. Register here 👇
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February 13, 2026 at 12:23 AM
Less than two weeks to the 3rd UNSW Resilient Democracy Lab workshop. Register here 👇
www.resilientdemocracylab.org/events
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Have yet to listen to this, but am very excited! @caroartc.bsky.social is great and @jerusalem.bsky.social is doing a fantastic job interviewing all the right people (especially me 😜) to understand the rise of the populist right!
youtu.be/gROQEScoyNY?...
youtu.be/gROQEScoyNY?...
Did the Opioid Epidemic Help Republicans Win? | The Argument
YouTube video by The Argument
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February 2, 2026 at 8:36 AM
Have yet to listen to this, but am very excited! @caroartc.bsky.social is great and @jerusalem.bsky.social is doing a fantastic job interviewing all the right people (especially me 😜) to understand the rise of the populist right!
youtu.be/gROQEScoyNY?...
youtu.be/gROQEScoyNY?...
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Very much looking forward to participating in this workshop! Thank you for inviting me.
🚨 Join us in Sydney for the
3rd UNSW Resilient Democracy Lab Workshop
26-27 Feb 2026
Info, program, and registration👇
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3rd UNSW Resilient Democracy Lab Workshop
26-27 Feb 2026
Info, program, and registration👇
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EVENTS | Resilient Democracy Lab
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January 19, 2026 at 8:50 AM
Very much looking forward to participating in this workshop! Thank you for inviting me.
🚨 Join us in Sydney for the
3rd UNSW Resilient Democracy Lab Workshop
26-27 Feb 2026
Info, program, and registration👇
www.resilientdemocracylab.org/events
3rd UNSW Resilient Democracy Lab Workshop
26-27 Feb 2026
Info, program, and registration👇
www.resilientdemocracylab.org/events
EVENTS | Resilient Democracy Lab
Events and Workshops at the Resilient Democracy Lab
www.resilientdemocracylab.org
January 19, 2026 at 4:48 AM
🚨 Join us in Sydney for the
3rd UNSW Resilient Democracy Lab Workshop
26-27 Feb 2026
Info, program, and registration👇
www.resilientdemocracylab.org/events
3rd UNSW Resilient Democracy Lab Workshop
26-27 Feb 2026
Info, program, and registration👇
www.resilientdemocracylab.org/events
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See this @stiglercenter.bsky.social post for a short summary of the paper.
www.promarket.org/2025/05/14/b...
www.promarket.org/2025/05/14/b...
Behind Populists’ Anti-Technocratic Fervor and Its Consequences for Liberal Democracy - ProMarket
Populist leaders like United States President Donald Trump are zealously challenging the authority of independent technocrats and judges. This backlash follows decades of steadily increasing delegatio...
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January 13, 2026 at 1:29 PM
See this @stiglercenter.bsky.social post for a short summary of the paper.
www.promarket.org/2025/05/14/b...
www.promarket.org/2025/05/14/b...
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Lovely to see the @jeppjournal.bsky.social paper that @grattonecon.bsky.social and I published last year covered.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The rise and fall of technocratic democracies: unstable majorities and delegation to technocrats
We study a stylised model of the rise and fall of technocratic democracies: democracies that delegate policymaking to unelected technocrats. In our model, technocratic democracies arise when majori...
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January 13, 2026 at 10:43 AM
Lovely to see the @jeppjournal.bsky.social paper that @grattonecon.bsky.social and I published last year covered.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Great podcast with @grattonecon.bsky.social! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dajZ...
How Liberal Elite Failure Fueled Far-Right Populism
YouTube video by The Argument
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December 22, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Great podcast with @grattonecon.bsky.social! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dajZ...
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🎁 Christmas has come early for @ammassarisofia.bsky.social & me with the publication of our article "The geography of the party on the ground: Local branches in Italy and Sweden in the late twentieth century" in @politicalgeography.bsky.social:
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The geography of the party on the ground: Local branches in Italy and Sweden in the late twentieth century
The idea that the presence of Western European political parties at grassroots level rose and fell in the twentieth century is central to some of the …
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December 8, 2025 at 1:13 AM
🎁 Christmas has come early for @ammassarisofia.bsky.social & me with the publication of our article "The geography of the party on the ground: Local branches in Italy and Sweden in the late twentieth century" in @politicalgeography.bsky.social:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Honoured to be invited to join the @cepr.org family in the Political Economy Programme. Looking forward to Rome's workshop in June👇 as my first in-person participation as fellow.
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📢 #CallForPapers - 4th CEPR Workshop on Media, Technology, Politics, and Society
In-person at EIEF in Rome on 25-26 June.
Deadline: 31 January 2026
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@rafaeljjd.bsky.social @alexeymakarin.bsky.social @andreaprat.bsky.social @fsobbrio.bsky.social
#EconSky
In-person at EIEF in Rome on 25-26 June.
Deadline: 31 January 2026
cepr.org/events/4th-c...
@rafaeljjd.bsky.social @alexeymakarin.bsky.social @andreaprat.bsky.social @fsobbrio.bsky.social
#EconSky
November 29, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Honoured to be invited to join the @cepr.org family in the Political Economy Programme. Looking forward to Rome's workshop in June👇 as my first in-person participation as fellow.
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bsky.app/profile/cepr...
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There is understandably a great deal of interest in fighting populism. I share the normative aspiration.
Yet the more I think about it, the more I find myself drawn to a more pessimistic interpretation. The latter may well be wrong. But articulating it helps clarify whether there are strong grounds
Yet the more I think about it, the more I find myself drawn to a more pessimistic interpretation. The latter may well be wrong. But articulating it helps clarify whether there are strong grounds
Very much looking forward to presenting this slide deck tomorrow at the Europe Workshop of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation!
I’ve tried to offer a balanced and accessible overview of the scholarly debates on the causes and consequences of right-wing populism, as well as the
I’ve tried to offer a balanced and accessible overview of the scholarly debates on the causes and consequences of right-wing populism, as well as the
November 27, 2025 at 1:21 PM
There is understandably a great deal of interest in fighting populism. I share the normative aspiration.
Yet the more I think about it, the more I find myself drawn to a more pessimistic interpretation. The latter may well be wrong. But articulating it helps clarify whether there are strong grounds
Yet the more I think about it, the more I find myself drawn to a more pessimistic interpretation. The latter may well be wrong. But articulating it helps clarify whether there are strong grounds
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Four more days to apply!
🕵️♂️Some of you have yet to apply to our @unswecon.bsky.social junior position, and I can't fathom why. 👀
DEADLINE: November 28.
QUESTION? Email me.
LINK: www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
DEADLINE: November 28.
QUESTION? Email me.
LINK: www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
American Economic Association: JOE Listings - August 1, 2025 - January 31, 2026
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November 24, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Four more days to apply!
🕵️♂️Some of you have yet to apply to our @unswecon.bsky.social junior position, and I can't fathom why. 👀
DEADLINE: November 28.
QUESTION? Email me.
LINK: www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
DEADLINE: November 28.
QUESTION? Email me.
LINK: www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
American Economic Association: JOE Listings - August 1, 2025 - January 31, 2026
www.aeaweb.org
November 20, 2025 at 8:12 PM
🕵️♂️Some of you have yet to apply to our @unswecon.bsky.social junior position, and I can't fathom why. 👀
DEADLINE: November 28.
QUESTION? Email me.
LINK: www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
DEADLINE: November 28.
QUESTION? Email me.
LINK: www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
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Delighted to see this paper out in @carlsengames.bsky.social - working with @grattonecon.bsky.social was fantastic; I learned a lot! We develop the argument that technocracy can serve as an intertemporal insurance device for groups who fear their majority status is ephemeral. Because technocrats
November 18, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Delighted to see this paper out in @carlsengames.bsky.social - working with @grattonecon.bsky.social was fantastic; I learned a lot! We develop the argument that technocracy can serve as an intertemporal insurance device for groups who fear their majority status is ephemeral. Because technocrats
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This Friday seminar: @anjaprummer.bsky.social uncovering the virtue of divisive designs in optimal mechanisms.
November 15, 2025 at 3:26 AM
This Friday seminar: @anjaprummer.bsky.social uncovering the virtue of divisive designs in optimal mechanisms.
Trying to publish a paper on fake news in 2012... I guess I was ahead of the times 😂🤷♂️
November 11, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Trying to publish a paper on fake news in 2012... I guess I was ahead of the times 😂🤷♂️
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Fascinating paper by @grattonecon.bsky.social, @bartonelee2.bsky.social, and Hasin Yousaf!
The paper addresses a fundamental question: Why do some democracies chronically avoid ambitious, long-term reforms even when they have decent institutions?
They argue that what matters is not only
The paper addresses a fundamental question: Why do some democracies chronically avoid ambitious, long-term reforms even when they have decent institutions?
They argue that what matters is not only
November 3, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Fascinating paper by @grattonecon.bsky.social, @bartonelee2.bsky.social, and Hasin Yousaf!
The paper addresses a fundamental question: Why do some democracies chronically avoid ambitious, long-term reforms even when they have decent institutions?
They argue that what matters is not only
The paper addresses a fundamental question: Why do some democracies chronically avoid ambitious, long-term reforms even when they have decent institutions?
They argue that what matters is not only
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.@warwickecon.bsky.social has a number of vacancies for Assistant Professors (Macro & Development)
Coventry has canals, an amazing cathedral etc.
... is one hour from London,
20 mins from Birmingham
90 mins from the Peak District National Park
Apply here: 👉 econjobmarket.org/positions/12...
Coventry has canals, an amazing cathedral etc.
... is one hour from London,
20 mins from Birmingham
90 mins from the Peak District National Park
Apply here: 👉 econjobmarket.org/positions/12...
November 1, 2025 at 4:48 PM
.@warwickecon.bsky.social has a number of vacancies for Assistant Professors (Macro & Development)
Coventry has canals, an amazing cathedral etc.
... is one hour from London,
20 mins from Birmingham
90 mins from the Peak District National Park
Apply here: 👉 econjobmarket.org/positions/12...
Coventry has canals, an amazing cathedral etc.
... is one hour from London,
20 mins from Birmingham
90 mins from the Peak District National Park
Apply here: 👉 econjobmarket.org/positions/12...
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I'm thrilled to see @ammassarisofia.bsky.social, Ferran Martinez i Coma & I have won over $825,000 in funding from the Australian Research Council for our Discovery Project "Generation-Z engagement with political parties".
(When you're recovering from drinking Lima tap water, this helps a lot).
(When you're recovering from drinking Lima tap water, this helps a lot).
October 28, 2025 at 12:50 AM
I'm thrilled to see @ammassarisofia.bsky.social, Ferran Martinez i Coma & I have won over $825,000 in funding from the Australian Research Council for our Discovery Project "Generation-Z engagement with political parties".
(When you're recovering from drinking Lima tap water, this helps a lot).
(When you're recovering from drinking Lima tap water, this helps a lot).
Preparing some (ambitious 🤣) slides for this year's @unswecon.bsky.social Annual Honours Alumni Event.
October 22, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Preparing some (ambitious 🤣) slides for this year's @unswecon.bsky.social Annual Honours Alumni Event.
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It's not our style to speculate on others' budgetary issues, But you may want to know we are hiring on this year's junior JM. 😉
🚨 WE @unswecon.bsky.social ARE HIRING! 🚨
JMC: apply and email/DM for any question!
A short 🧵 on @unswecon.bsky.social and why you want to apply and join us in Sydney👇
econjobmarket.org/positionGrou...
JMC: apply and email/DM for any question!
A short 🧵 on @unswecon.bsky.social and why you want to apply and join us in Sydney👇
econjobmarket.org/positionGrou...
EJM - Econ Job Market
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October 22, 2025 at 8:56 PM
It's not our style to speculate on others' budgetary issues, But you may want to know we are hiring on this year's junior JM. 😉
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🚨NEW VERSION IS HERE!!!
🔥ADDING FUEL TO THE (GUN)FIRE 2.0❤️🔥
LINK: gratton.org/papers/Addin...
A short 🧵 👇 1/8
🔥ADDING FUEL TO THE (GUN)FIRE 2.0❤️🔥
LINK: gratton.org/papers/Addin...
A short 🧵 👇 1/8
October 22, 2025 at 7:32 AM
🚨NEW VERSION IS HERE!!!
🔥ADDING FUEL TO THE (GUN)FIRE 2.0❤️🔥
LINK: gratton.org/papers/Addin...
A short 🧵 👇 1/8
🔥ADDING FUEL TO THE (GUN)FIRE 2.0❤️🔥
LINK: gratton.org/papers/Addin...
A short 🧵 👇 1/8
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Public debate surrounding 57 mass shooting events 2016-2022 become systematically more partisan and polarized after politicians join the conversation. Analysis of 4.75M tweets reveals that unlike other social media celebrities, interventions by politicians are uniquely partisan and issue polarizing!
🚨NEW VERSION IS HERE!!!
🔥ADDING FUEL TO THE (GUN)FIRE 2.0❤️🔥
LINK: gratton.org/papers/Addin...
A short 🧵 👇 1/8
🔥ADDING FUEL TO THE (GUN)FIRE 2.0❤️🔥
LINK: gratton.org/papers/Addin...
A short 🧵 👇 1/8
October 22, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Public debate surrounding 57 mass shooting events 2016-2022 become systematically more partisan and polarized after politicians join the conversation. Analysis of 4.75M tweets reveals that unlike other social media celebrities, interventions by politicians are uniquely partisan and issue polarizing!
🚨NEW VERSION IS HERE!!!
🔥ADDING FUEL TO THE (GUN)FIRE 2.0❤️🔥
LINK: gratton.org/papers/Addin...
A short 🧵 👇 1/8
🔥ADDING FUEL TO THE (GUN)FIRE 2.0❤️🔥
LINK: gratton.org/papers/Addin...
A short 🧵 👇 1/8
October 22, 2025 at 7:32 AM
🚨NEW VERSION IS HERE!!!
🔥ADDING FUEL TO THE (GUN)FIRE 2.0❤️🔥
LINK: gratton.org/papers/Addin...
A short 🧵 👇 1/8
🔥ADDING FUEL TO THE (GUN)FIRE 2.0❤️🔥
LINK: gratton.org/papers/Addin...
A short 🧵 👇 1/8
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For more information about our department, check out this thread by one of our many wonderful professors, @grattonecon.bsky.social
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bsky.app/profile/grat...
🚨 WE @unswecon.bsky.social ARE HIRING! 🚨
JMC: apply and email/DM for any question!
A short 🧵 on @unswecon.bsky.social and why you want to apply and join us in Sydney👇
econjobmarket.org/positionGrou...
JMC: apply and email/DM for any question!
A short 🧵 on @unswecon.bsky.social and why you want to apply and join us in Sydney👇
econjobmarket.org/positionGrou...
EJM - Econ Job Market
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October 17, 2025 at 3:42 AM
For more information about our department, check out this thread by one of our many wonderful professors, @grattonecon.bsky.social
bsky.app/profile/grat...
bsky.app/profile/grat...