Gabriele Gratton

EVENTS | Resilient Democracy Lab Events and Workshops at the Resilient Democracy Lab

Less than two weeks to the 3rd UNSW Resilient Democracy Lab workshop. Register here 👇
www.resilientdemocracylab.org/events

YouTube video by The Argument How Liberal Elite Failure Fueled Far-Right Populism

ICYMI: youtu.be/dajZcIrLYWU?...

YouTube video by The Argument Did the Opioid Epidemic Help Republicans Win? | The Argument

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?...

Very much looking forward to participating in this workshop! Thank you for inviting me.

EVENTS | Resilient Democracy Lab Events and Workshops at the Resilient Democracy Lab

🚨 Join us in Sydney for the

3rd UNSW Resilient Democracy Lab Workshop
26-27 Feb 2026

Info, program, and registration👇
www.resilientdemocracylab.org/events

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...

See this @stiglercenter.bsky.social post for a short summary of the paper.
www.promarket.org/2025/05/14/b...

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...

Lovely to see the @jeppjournal.bsky.social paper that @grattonecon.bsky.social and I published last year covered.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The price of expertise How independent agencies save us from political whiplash and spawn populist backlash.

Great article by @jerusalem.bsky.social!
www.theargumentmag.com/p/the-price-...

Thank you, Jacob. I think at the beginning I was still waking up at 8am 😂 but later on I got more lively 😉

YouTube video by The Argument How Liberal Elite Failure Fueled Far-Right Populism

Great podcast with @grattonecon.bsky.social! www.youtube.com/watch?v=dajZ...

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 …

🎁 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...

nah.

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.
bsky.app/profile/cepr...

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

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....

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

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 😂🤷‍♂️

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

.@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...

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).

Congrats! Looking forward to seeing the results.

Preparing some (ambitious 🤣) slides for this year's @unswecon.bsky.social Annual Honours Alumni Event.

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. 😉

🚨NEW VERSION IS HERE!!!

🔥ADDING FUEL TO THE (GUN)FIRE 2.0❤️‍🔥

LINK: gratton.org/papers/Addin...
A short 🧵 👇 1/8

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!

8/8 Our analysis points to politicians offering a partisan lense through which to look at policy-relevant events. Users who join the debate after politicians intervene are then induced to look at these events though the partisan polarized lenses offered by politicians.

7/8 Crucially, the effect is
- unique to politicians, who uniquely use partisan language
- stronger when politicians themselves supply partisan rhetoric in their own posts
- not about attracting more (or more politicized) or more posts
- coupled wirth more "tribal" language

6/8
2. We show that when politicians intervene, public debates become more partisan and polarized. More intervetnions? More polarization!