Gabriele Gratton
@grattonecon.bsky.social
Professor of Politics and Economics, UNSW Sydney. ARC Future Fellow
http://gratton.org
http://resilientdemocracylab.org
For rocks&cats: http://instagram.com/prof_not_pro
http://gratton.org
http://resilientdemocracylab.org
For rocks&cats: http://instagram.com/prof_not_pro
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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
bsky.app/profile/grat...
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...
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Hello everyone, we have an important announcement: We are hiring on the junior market.
Please send us your applications -- we want to recruit the best and brightest to join our exciting department. We may also hire at senior levels.
Apps Close November 28th
econjobmarket.org/positionGrou...
Please send us your applications -- we want to recruit the best and brightest to join our exciting department. We may also hire at senior levels.
Apps Close November 28th
econjobmarket.org/positionGrou...
October 17, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Hello everyone, we have an important announcement: We are hiring on the junior market.
Please send us your applications -- we want to recruit the best and brightest to join our exciting department. We may also hire at senior levels.
Apps Close November 28th
econjobmarket.org/positionGrou...
Please send us your applications -- we want to recruit the best and brightest to join our exciting department. We may also hire at senior levels.
Apps Close November 28th
econjobmarket.org/positionGrou...
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AOC has just officially become the top House fundraiser, beating out Hakeem Jeffries. Now lemme take a big sip of coffee as I look at the age distribution of donors to AOC vs Jeffries
October 16, 2025 at 8:51 PM
AOC has just officially become the top House fundraiser, beating out Hakeem Jeffries. Now lemme take a big sip of coffee as I look at the age distribution of donors to AOC vs Jeffries
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🚨 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 14, 2025 at 10:33 PM
🚨 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...
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We are hiring! Join us in Sydney.
🚨 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 14, 2025 at 11:06 PM
We are hiring! Join us in Sydney.
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If I were a JMC, I would jump at this headfirst…
🚨 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👇
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EJM - Econ Job Market
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October 14, 2025 at 10:36 PM
If I were a JMC, I would jump at this headfirst…
🚨 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 14, 2025 at 10:33 PM
🚨 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...
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Nice framework. And the normative complement would be that it is OK for majorities in power to delegate to technocratic bodies when they fear their future selves (the usual time inconsistency argument), but not OK when they want to lock in policy because the opposition might rule in the future.
Interested in a take that situates the Cook saga -- and concerns about the erosion of Fed independence -- in a broader theoretical framework? Then, check out the updated version of this working paper by @grattonecon.bsky.social and myself. gratton.org/papers/Techn...
September 16, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Nice framework. And the normative complement would be that it is OK for majorities in power to delegate to technocratic bodies when they fear their future selves (the usual time inconsistency argument), but not OK when they want to lock in policy because the opposition might rule in the future.
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Interested in a take that situates the Cook saga -- and concerns about the erosion of Fed independence -- in a broader theoretical framework? Then, check out the updated version of this working paper by @grattonecon.bsky.social and myself. gratton.org/papers/Techn...
September 16, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Interested in a take that situates the Cook saga -- and concerns about the erosion of Fed independence -- in a broader theoretical framework? Then, check out the updated version of this working paper by @grattonecon.bsky.social and myself. gratton.org/papers/Techn...
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The new edition of Weber meets Kafka is out!
@grattonecon.bsky.social, Luigi Guiso, Claudio Michelacci, and Massimo Morelli. 2021. ‘From Weber to Kafka: Political Instability and the Overproduction of Laws’. American Economic Review 111(9): 2964–3003. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
@grattonecon.bsky.social, Luigi Guiso, Claudio Michelacci, and Massimo Morelli. 2021. ‘From Weber to Kafka: Political Instability and the Overproduction of Laws’. American Economic Review 111(9): 2964–3003. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
September 14, 2025 at 10:32 PM
The new edition of Weber meets Kafka is out!
@grattonecon.bsky.social, Luigi Guiso, Claudio Michelacci, and Massimo Morelli. 2021. ‘From Weber to Kafka: Political Instability and the Overproduction of Laws’. American Economic Review 111(9): 2964–3003. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
@grattonecon.bsky.social, Luigi Guiso, Claudio Michelacci, and Massimo Morelli. 2021. ‘From Weber to Kafka: Political Instability and the Overproduction of Laws’. American Economic Review 111(9): 2964–3003. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
🚨Announcing the 2025
Australian Political Economy Workshop (APEN 2025)
18 November, @unswecon.bsky.social
@lalthoff.bsky.social, @kathrynbaragwanath.bsky.social, P Bhattacharya, R Dahis, @anjaprummer.bsky.social , D Strömberg, L Welnner
REGISTER AT sites.google.com/view/apenetw...
Australian Political Economy Workshop (APEN 2025)
18 November, @unswecon.bsky.social
@lalthoff.bsky.social, @kathrynbaragwanath.bsky.social, P Bhattacharya, R Dahis, @anjaprummer.bsky.social , D Strömberg, L Welnner
REGISTER AT sites.google.com/view/apenetw...
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September 2, 2025 at 9:03 PM
🚨Announcing the 2025
Australian Political Economy Workshop (APEN 2025)
18 November, @unswecon.bsky.social
@lalthoff.bsky.social, @kathrynbaragwanath.bsky.social, P Bhattacharya, R Dahis, @anjaprummer.bsky.social , D Strömberg, L Welnner
REGISTER AT sites.google.com/view/apenetw...
Australian Political Economy Workshop (APEN 2025)
18 November, @unswecon.bsky.social
@lalthoff.bsky.social, @kathrynbaragwanath.bsky.social, P Bhattacharya, R Dahis, @anjaprummer.bsky.social , D Strömberg, L Welnner
REGISTER AT sites.google.com/view/apenetw...
Hyping!
2025 Australian Political Economy Workshop
@unswecon.bsky.social, 18 November
Announcements, emails, speakers list coming this week!
2025 Australian Political Economy Workshop
@unswecon.bsky.social, 18 November
Announcements, emails, speakers list coming this week!
September 1, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Hyping!
2025 Australian Political Economy Workshop
@unswecon.bsky.social, 18 November
Announcements, emails, speakers list coming this week!
2025 Australian Political Economy Workshop
@unswecon.bsky.social, 18 November
Announcements, emails, speakers list coming this week!
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Today’s econ seminar featured Ruben Durante presenting amazing work on the effect of GenAI on demand for news (joint with @filipecampante.bsky.social and @ananyasen.bsky.social)
August 29, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Today’s econ seminar featured Ruben Durante presenting amazing work on the effect of GenAI on demand for news (joint with @filipecampante.bsky.social and @ananyasen.bsky.social)
Today at @sioecon.bsky.social 2025. How politicians polarize the public debate.
August 24, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Today at @sioecon.bsky.social 2025. How politicians polarize the public debate.
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Thermostatic public opinion seems to be something of a stylised fact. Its microfoundations are not obvious. If policymakers are vote-seeking and voters are spatial, and both are perfectly informed, then policy should converge to the vote-max. position with no systematic over- or undershooting.
August 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Thermostatic public opinion seems to be something of a stylised fact. Its microfoundations are not obvious. If policymakers are vote-seeking and voters are spatial, and both are perfectly informed, then policy should converge to the vote-max. position with no systematic over- or undershooting.
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People will read this as “Democrats are doomed”, but in our duopolistic system it most likely means they’re ripe for the kind of hostile takeover that Trump pulled off in the GOP. It’s a good bet that the 2028 nominee won’t be an elected official. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/u...
The Democratic Party Faces a Voter Registration Crisis
www.nytimes.com
August 20, 2025 at 10:38 AM
People will read this as “Democrats are doomed”, but in our duopolistic system it most likely means they’re ripe for the kind of hostile takeover that Trump pulled off in the GOP. It’s a good bet that the 2028 nominee won’t be an elected official. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/u...
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Our seminar speaker today, Gianluca Russo, and our very own Pauline Grosjean discussing Gianluca’s amazing work uncovering the intended and unintended effects of transitional justice programs using aggregate and individual data from South Africa.
August 20, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Our seminar speaker today, Gianluca Russo, and our very own Pauline Grosjean discussing Gianluca’s amazing work uncovering the intended and unintended effects of transitional justice programs using aggregate and individual data from South Africa.