Gabriele Gratton

We have a logo! 💪

🚨Davide Cipullo, Tommaso Colussi, Domenico Rossignoli and I are excited to open the call for the 2nd UniCatt Political Economy workshop! We have 2 great keynotes: Alessandra Casella and David Yanagizawa-Drott. Send us your papers (theory or empirics) and let us meet in Milano on December 18.

Incredible new work from our wonderful colleague Masyhur Hilmy and illustrious coauthors in REStud!

"State schools aimed to secularize Indonesia, but religious schools adapted, competing for students and strengthening Islamic identity instead."

Recently accepted to #REStud, from Bazzi, Hilmy and Marx:

www.restud.com/religion-edu...

#econsky

Recently accepted to #REStud, "Policy Diffusion and Polarization across U.S. States," from DellaVigna and Kim:

www.restud.com/policy-diffu...

#econsky

What a pleasure to host Paola Conconi (@oxfordecondept.bsky.social‬) presenting her brand new analysis finding that the complex rules of origin in the post-Brexit UK-EU free trade agreement distorted French firms' sourcing decisions and reduced French exports of final goods to the UK.

We don't hate to recommend it! There's still a few days to apply to us for your PhD www.unsw.edu.au/business/stu...

We study 4.7 mil tweets in 57 online public debates surrounding U.S. mass shooting events (2016-2022).

We:

1. Document when and how politicians intervene in debates;

2. Identify the polarizing effect of political interventions.

✈️Off to Melbourne to present "Adding Fuel to the (Gun)Fire" at Deakin. 👇

We study 4.7 mil tweets in 57 online public debates surrounding U.S. mass shooting events (2016-2022).

We:

1. Document when and how politicians intervene in debates;

2. Identify the polarizing effect of political interventions.

✈️Off to Melbourne to present "Adding Fuel to the (Gun)Fire" at Deakin. 👇

Home | Resilient Democracy Lab | UNSW Sydney The Resilient Democracy Lab at UNSW promotes and supports theoretical and empirical research on the robustness of democratic institutions. We study how economic, political, and cultural factors affect...

5/7 Some of our PhD students can access further research funding from our labs, hubs and centres, eg, Resilient Democracy Lab, which we think could hardly be more timely and important, featuring our fearless @grattonecon.bsky.social and many other incredible colleagues www.resilientdemocracylab.org

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Economics | AGSM - UNSW Sydney The UNSW Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Economics will focus your research in microeconomic and macroeconomic theory, econometrics and applied economic analysis.

🚨 Applications to our PhD program starting January 2026 close on July 31 🗓️

Fully funded scholarship for a 1 year Master’s coursework + 3.5 year research in our School.

A 🧵 on our PhD program and school. (1/7)

Program and application info 👇

www.unsw.edu.au/business/stu...

UNSW Econ is finalloy on Bluesky! 👇

they're finally here!!!!! we're finally here? they/we pronouns.

Hi everyone! We're finally on bluesky! We heard this is now where all the cool people hang out, and even though we are just an economics department, we still would like to be cool.

Workshop on the Political Economy of Autocratic Rule & Democratic Backsliding Workshop on the Political Economy of Autocratic Rule & Democratic Backsliding, Toulouse, TSE/IAST Building, June 23–24, 2025.

Why is democracy so fragile—and autocracy so resilient?
📅June 23-24

Line-up: @bartonelee2.bsky.social @janeesberg.bsky.social @felixhaass.bsky.social @mattingly.bsky.social @monikanalepa.bsky.social @aspaglayan.bsky.social &+

ℹ️ www.iast.fr/conferences/...

The day is here! Looking forward to the 2nd edition of SCoPE at the University of Sydney today 🤩

@davidubilava.bsky.social

Program sydneyscope.org

We have a superb lineup of 18 speakers representing 10 universities from across four countries. Really excited about this one!

And, of course, our best review yet 👇 bsky.app/profile/adam...

Summary here 👇 bsky.app/profile/prom...

Link to paper: gratton.org/papers/Techn...

Today at sydneyscope.org (organised by @davidubilava.bsky.social and @ashani.bsky.social). With @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social

This is so familiar to anyone who’s followed Bolsonaro and the Brazilian populist far-right over the last six years. Blaming courts is a twofer: a bid for more unchecked power, and an excuse for the populist’s inability to deliver results. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/u...

A small new theory paper on how propaganda works: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers..... Contains a personal anecdote, a formal model, and a mathematical definition of a lie. Explains the propaganda effect of Soviet elections, in which there were no option to vote against the sole candidate.

Link to full paper: gratton.org/papers/Techn...

Summary of our take on how tensions between majoritarian and technocratic views of democracy threaten liberal democracy (with @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social).

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Our conclusion

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...

Great to see this @promarket.bsky.social piece with @grattonecon.bsky.social out, which summarises our “Rise and Fall of Technocratic Demcracies” paper! www.promarket.org/2025/05/14/b...