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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

MARKET POWER IS POWER New working paper with @bartonelee2.bsky.social Thread below! 1/5 gratton.org/papers/Marke...

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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Finishing up the slides for the launch this Thursday night. Excited... and a bit scared

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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Trying to publish a paper on fake news in 2012... I guess I was ahead of the times 😂🤷‍♂️

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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

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

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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

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.

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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

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

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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

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.

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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

🚨NEW VERSION IS HERE!!! 🔥ADDING FUEL TO THE (GUN)FIRE 2.0❤️‍🔥 LINK: gratton.org/papers/Addin... A short 🧵 👇 1/8

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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

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.

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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Hyping! 2025 Australian Political Economy Workshop @unswecon.bsky.social, 18 November Announcements, emails, speakers list coming this week!

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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Today at @sioecon.bsky.social 2025. How politicians polarize the public debate.

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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

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.

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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

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

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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

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/🧵👇

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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

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!

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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

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.

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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

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.

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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

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.

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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

🚨 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

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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

📢 COMING SOON to a working paper near you! (Next week? Stay tuned!)

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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

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...

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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 01/09/2024

16 years. 2 continents. Much less hair (me). 2 cats. 1 ❤️

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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 28/10/2023

Weekend coffe, veggie shopping, …and referee reports 😜

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Gabriele Gratton @grattonecon.bsky.social · 26/09/2023

Oh, I see, we're back tilting at windmills.

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