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
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 😂🤷♂️
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.
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.
October 22, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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.
6/8
2. We show that when politicians intervene, public debates become more partisan and polarized. More intervetnions? More polarization!
2. We show that when politicians intervene, public debates become more partisan and polarized. More intervetnions? More polarization!
October 22, 2025 at 7:32 AM
6/8
2. We show that when politicians intervene, public debates become more partisan and polarized. More intervetnions? More polarization!
2. We show that when politicians intervene, public debates become more partisan and polarized. More intervetnions? More polarization!
4/8 We show that when politicians intervene in public debates surrounding policy relevant events (mass shootings), other users engage in more partisan (more politicians-like) and more polarised (more non-elite polarized-like) posts.
October 22, 2025 at 7:32 AM
4/8 We show that when politicians intervene in public debates surrounding policy relevant events (mass shootings), other users engage in more partisan (more politicians-like) and more polarised (more non-elite polarized-like) posts.
🚨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
1. Because we are a great department in a great city! Sydney is a large multicultural financial center in an English-speaking high-state-capacity liberal democracy. The ocean is a 🚶 from campus; wilderness a short 🚉 away.
October 14, 2025 at 10:33 PM
1. Because we are a great department in a great city! Sydney is a large multicultural financial center in an English-speaking high-state-capacity liberal democracy. The ocean is a 🚶 from campus; wilderness a short 🚉 away.
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!
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.
We have a logo! 💪
August 5, 2025 at 4:40 AM
We have a logo! 💪
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.
We:
1. Document when and how politicians intervene in debates;
2. Identify the polarizing effect of political interventions.
July 21, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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.
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. 👇
July 21, 2025 at 8:53 PM
✈️Off to Melbourne to present "Adding Fuel to the (Gun)Fire" at Deakin. 👇
Today at sydneyscope.org (organised by @davidubilava.bsky.social and @ashani.bsky.social). With @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social
June 2, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Today at sydneyscope.org (organised by @davidubilava.bsky.social and @ashani.bsky.social). With @jacobedenhofer.bsky.social
From the other platform:
The myth that “education” will defeat populism and strengthen democracy is dangerous and is an internal threat to democratic resilience. We won’t save liberal democracy by placing ourselves on this pedestal of philosopher kings.
Let me explain:
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The myth that “education” will defeat populism and strengthen democracy is dangerous and is an internal threat to democratic resilience. We won’t save liberal democracy by placing ourselves on this pedestal of philosopher kings.
Let me explain:
1/🧵👇
March 22, 2025 at 9:48 PM
From the other platform:
The myth that “education” will defeat populism and strengthen democracy is dangerous and is an internal threat to democratic resilience. We won’t save liberal democracy by placing ourselves on this pedestal of philosopher kings.
Let me explain:
1/🧵👇
The myth that “education” will defeat populism and strengthen democracy is dangerous and is an internal threat to democratic resilience. We won’t save liberal democracy by placing ourselves on this pedestal of philosopher kings.
Let me explain:
1/🧵👇
What do “populist” voters want from their representatives? Why not ask them? Kevin Arceneaux reports populist voters want representatives to:
1. Listen less to experts and do less research!
2. Listen more to ordinary people!
1. Listen less to experts and do less research!
2. Listen more to ordinary people!
February 5, 2025 at 11:06 PM
What do “populist” voters want from their representatives? Why not ask them? Kevin Arceneaux reports populist voters want representatives to:
1. Listen less to experts and do less research!
2. Listen more to ordinary people!
1. Listen less to experts and do less research!
2. Listen more to ordinary people!
6/6 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.
January 8, 2025 at 5:25 AM
6/6 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.
5/6
2. we show that when politicians intervene, public debates become more tribal and partisan. Crucially: much more so when politicians themselves supply partisan and tribal rhetoric in their own posts.
2. we show that when politicians intervene, public debates become more tribal and partisan. Crucially: much more so when politicians themselves supply partisan and tribal rhetoric in their own posts.
January 8, 2025 at 5:25 AM
5/6
2. we show that when politicians intervene, public debates become more tribal and partisan. Crucially: much more so when politicians themselves supply partisan and tribal rhetoric in their own posts.
2. we show that when politicians intervene, public debates become more tribal and partisan. Crucially: much more so when politicians themselves supply partisan and tribal rhetoric in their own posts.
3/6 We show that when politicians intervene in public debates surrounding policy relevant events (mass shootings), other users engage in more tribal and partisan posts.
January 8, 2025 at 5:25 AM
3/6 We show that when politicians intervene in public debates surrounding policy relevant events (mass shootings), other users engage in more tribal and partisan posts.
🚨 NEW WORKING PAPER ALERT!!! 🚨
ADDING FUEL TO THE (GUN)FIRE
How Politicians Polarize the Public Debate
Link: gratton.org/papers/AddingF…
A short 🧵 👇1/6
ADDING FUEL TO THE (GUN)FIRE
How Politicians Polarize the Public Debate
Link: gratton.org/papers/AddingF…
A short 🧵 👇1/6
January 8, 2025 at 5:25 AM
🚨 NEW WORKING PAPER ALERT!!! 🚨
ADDING FUEL TO THE (GUN)FIRE
How Politicians Polarize the Public Debate
Link: gratton.org/papers/AddingF…
A short 🧵 👇1/6
ADDING FUEL TO THE (GUN)FIRE
How Politicians Polarize the Public Debate
Link: gratton.org/papers/AddingF…
A short 🧵 👇1/6
📢 COMING SOON to a working paper near you! (Next week? Stay tuned!)
January 3, 2025 at 3:20 PM
📢 COMING SOON to a working paper near you! (Next week? Stay tuned!)
On my way to the airport again.
✈️🌏✈️🌎✈️🌍
Touring “Bad Democracy Traps” with talks in Chicago (Harris), Turin (CCA) and Milan (Bocconi).
LINK: www.gratton.org/papers/BadDe...
✈️🌏✈️🌎✈️🌍
Touring “Bad Democracy Traps” with talks in Chicago (Harris), Turin (CCA) and Milan (Bocconi).
LINK: www.gratton.org/papers/BadDe...
December 3, 2024 at 6:27 PM
On my way to the airport again.
✈️🌏✈️🌎✈️🌍
Touring “Bad Democracy Traps” with talks in Chicago (Harris), Turin (CCA) and Milan (Bocconi).
LINK: www.gratton.org/papers/BadDe...
✈️🌏✈️🌎✈️🌍
Touring “Bad Democracy Traps” with talks in Chicago (Harris), Turin (CCA) and Milan (Bocconi).
LINK: www.gratton.org/papers/BadDe...
16 years. 2 continents. Much less hair (me). 2 cats. 1 ❤️
September 1, 2024 at 9:22 PM
16 years. 2 continents. Much less hair (me). 2 cats. 1 ❤️
Weekend coffe, veggie shopping, …and referee reports 😜
October 28, 2023 at 2:42 AM
Weekend coffe, veggie shopping, …and referee reports 😜
Oh, I see, we're back tilting at windmills.
September 26, 2023 at 8:56 PM
Oh, I see, we're back tilting at windmills.