My Expertise
I am professor of Politics and Economics in the UNSW Business School, an ARC Future Fellow, and founder and director of the UNSW Resilient Democracy Lab. My personal website is gratton.org.
I am a political economist. My research aims at understanding the determinants of democratic stability and provide insights into what economic, technological, and political factors increase the viability of liberal democratic institutions in the long run. I focus on the role of the state bureaucracy and its relation with politics and citizens, and the management and transmission of information in a context of increasing media pluralism. I wish to contribute to the design of democratic institutions capable to withstand negative economic and social shocks.
Fields of Research (FoR)
Economic theory, Applied economicsBiography
Gabriele Gratton is Professor of Politics and Economics in the UNSW Business School, an ARC Future Fellow, and founder and director of the UNSW Resilient Democracy Lab.
Visit the Resilient Democracy Lab website and gratton.org to learn more.
Personal website: http://gratton.org.
My Grants
ARC Discovery Project: ($214,056) “The Economics of (Mis)Information in the Age of Social Media”, 2024–2028 (with Anton...view more
Gabriele Gratton is Professor of Politics and Economics in the UNSW Business School, an ARC Future Fellow, and founder and director of the UNSW Resilient Democracy Lab.
Visit the Resilient Democracy Lab website and gratton.org to learn more.
Personal website: http://gratton.org.
My Grants
ARC Discovery Project: ($214,056) “The Economics of (Mis)Information in the Age of Social Media”, 2024–2028 (with Anton Kolotilin, Lionel Page, and Hongyi Li)
ARC Future Fellowship: ($1,013,480) "Resilient Democracy for the 21st Century:, 2022-2025
UNSW Scientia Program: ($160,000), 2019-2022
BSRG: ($24,852) “Political Reputation and the Evolution of Bureaucracy, 2018
ARC Discovery Project: ($139,000) “Legitimacy and Representation: A Comprehensive Study of Electoral Systems and Strategic Voting Behaviour”, 2014–2016 (with Carlos Pimienta and Marco Faravelli)
ASB Research Grant: ($7,100) “Media, Defamation, and Corruption”, 2013/2014
ASB Research Grant: ($9,058) “Understanding Terrorism: Fear and Reputation”, 2012
ASB Travel Grants, 2012-2013
Special Research Fellowship, Boston University, Fall 2010
Summer Research Grant, Boston University, Summer 2010
Travel Grant, Boston University IED, Summer 2010
My Qualifications
PhD in Economics, Boston University, 2011
MSc in Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2006
BA (Laurea) in Economics, University of Rome 'Tor Vergata', 2005
My Awards
Oliver Williamson Best Conference Paper Award, Society for Institutional & Organizational Economics (SIOE), 2021
UNSW Business School Outstanding Research Award (Associate Professor), 2019
UNSW Business School Non-Professorial Research Achievement Award 2014
My Research Supervision
Areas of supervision
Political Economics
Currently supervising
DJ Thornton: https://djthornton.org
Ian Hoefer Martí
My Engagement
- Behind Populists’ Anti-Technocratic Fervor and Its Consequences for Liberal Democracy, ProMarket, 14 May 2025
- Why do Labor and the Coalition have so many similar policies? It’s simple mathematics, The Conversation, 23 April 2025
- COVERAGE: The democracy seesaw: Why experts fall as populists rise, Business Think, 15 April 2025
- Is a Gridlocked Congress Causing More Polarization?, ProMarket, 26 June 2024
- Responses to Populism Require Understanding Why Voters Lose Faith in Experts, ProMarket, 10 October 2023
- Governments Were Forced to Restrict Civil Liberties to Deal With Covid-19. More Flexible Constitutions Could Prevent That From Becoming the New Normal, ProMarket, 20 October 2021.
- PODCAST COVERAGE: Interview on Not Another Politics Podcast, 9 September 2020.
- The RBA mangles its messaging, Australian Financial Review, 5 March 2020.
- Rate cuts might hurt, as well as help. What if this man didn’t need to do as much?, The Conversation, 2 July 2019.
- RADIO: Interview on The Wire, 14 June 2019.
- Our economic model looks broken, but trying to fix it could be a disaster, The Conversation, 7 June 2019.
- COVERAGE: F. Fubini on From Weber to Kafka. Troppe e scritte male: Quando le leggi frenano la crescita, L'Economia del Corriere della Sera, 23 Apr 2019.
- QuItaly is Now a Real Possibility, Australian Financial Review, 21 May 2018.
- The many ways Australia isn’t as pro-trade as we claim, The Conversation, 10 April 2018.
- Can Australia avoid Europe’s populist fate?, BusinessThink, 9 April 2018.
- Labor Should Take Heed, Australian Financial Review, 18 November 2017.
- COVERAGE: Yes, economic self-interest spurs Muslim voters too, Business Think, 21 Sweptember 2016
- Voting Islamist: It's the economy, stupid, Vox.eu, 14 July 2016.
My Teaching
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ORCID as entered in ROS
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2613-0818