Let me just re-up our review of Dani Rodrik's new book ("Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World") in light of this very interesting podcast. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Great to see this finally on The Economic Journal site! “From Gridlock to Polarisation?” (with @bartonelee2.bsky.social and @marcjacob.bsky.social ).
academic.oup.com/ej/article/d...

Not Another Politics Podcast Government Podcast · Updated Monthly · With all the noise created by a 24/7 news cycle, it can be hard to really grasp what's going on in politics today. We provide a fresh perspective on the biggest ...

and @bartonelee2.bsky.social gave a tremendous interview about it for our favourite podcast (and in fact an inspiration for the theory in this paper). podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/n...

In 2024, we wrote about the initial working paper on ProMarket promarket.org/2024/06/26/is-… via @promarket.bsky.social

Great to see this finally on The Economic Journal site! “From Gridlock to Polarisation?” (with @bartonelee2.bsky.social and @marcjacob.bsky.social ).
academic.oup.com/ej/article/d...

But… but… black market for what? Honda airbags? So how come there is shortage in aggregate? Is it because Honda itself profits from the black market arbitrage? I am confused…

If you don’t mind me asking: what is the raving demand for Honda airbag for? (Your mechanism implies it’s not for actual Honda cars and your frustration indicates you can’t buy a non-Honda and yet compatible airbag, so…)

Thank you! We wholeheartedly share that hope. It’s of crucial importance for the future of democracy and we believe your book will stimulate others to look for the right solutions.

Delighted to see this review of @drodrik.bsky.social’s stimulating new book out in “Economic Record”, co-authored with @grattonecon.bsky.social. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

How democracies erode Democracy is not collapsing, but it is eroding. Across the West, economic shocks, political constraints, and widening gaps between voters and institutions are reshaping stable democratic systems into ...

Check out this article by @grattonecon.bsky.social. It features his important work with @bartonelee2.bsky.social -- along with the contributions of Massimo Morelli, @trfetzer.com, @caroartc.bsky.social, and Laurenz Guenther. Most importantly, however, it
www.eurekastreet.com.au/article/how-...

Oops, wrong tag @bartonelee2.bsky.social !

When you see the proofs, it feels a bit more real ✨

Grassroots Women in the Populist Radical Right (Oxford University Press) will be published online in June 2026 and in print in July 2026.

Bad Democracy Traps Abstract. We study how political culture interacts with a democracy’s ability to pursue ambitious policy agendas. We conceptualise a political culture as v

Full paper available on the Economic Journal site: academic.oup.com/ej/advance-a...

BusinessThink on our paper with @bartonelee2 and Hasin Yousaf, “Bad Democracy Traps”

“Why we don’t trust politicians (and what this means for democracy)”

www.businessthink.unsw.edu.au/articles/tru...

Seminar today: Laurenz Guenther exploring the role of political representation gaps in fuelling the rise of anti-immigration far-right populism in Europe.

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New site live!
resilientdemocracylab.org

This is one of the most elegantly written "academic" trade books that I've read in a long time and it puts forward an intriguing argument. The implicit baseline, as I understand it, ​is ``quiet politics'', with business prevailing most of the time, save www.bloomsbury.com/uk/billionai...

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

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

ICYMI: youtu.be/dajZcIrLYWU?...

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

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Info, program, and registration👇
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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...

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 😉

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

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.