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
Reposted by Gabriele Gratton
See this @stiglercenter.bsky.social post for a short summary of the paper.
www.promarket.org/2025/05/14/b...
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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...
Reposted by Gabriele Gratton
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....
Thank you, Jacob. I think at the beginning I was still waking up at 8am 😂 but later on I got more lively 😉
December 22, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Thank you, Jacob. I think at the beginning I was still waking up at 8am 😂 but later on I got more lively 😉
Congrats! Looking forward to seeing the results.
October 28, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Congrats! Looking forward to seeing the results.
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.
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
- 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
October 22, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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
- 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!
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!