Rafael HORTALA-VALLVE

Lecturer in Political Science and Public Policy

Government Department

London School of Economics and Political Science

Contact details

Government Department (Office CON.4.16)

Houghton Street

London, WC2A 2AE

United Kingdom

Phone: +44 (0) 20 7955 71 76

r.hortala-vallve(at)lse.ac.uk

Research Interests

Formal Political Theory. Political Economy. Social Choice. Public Economics. Collective

Decision-Making. Coalition Formation. Voting and Elections. Experimental social sciences.

Teaching (11/12)

GV478 Political Science and Public Policy

GV514 Political Science and Political Economics Doctoral Workshop

GV4B3 MPA Capstone Project

Published papers

The Three A's of Government Formation: Appointment, Allocation, and Assignment

American Journal of Political Science, Volume 55, Issue 3, 2011 (joint with Torun Dewan, LSE)

Generous Legislators? A Description of Vote Trading Agreements

Quarterly Journal of Political Science, Volume 6, Issue 2, 2011

Pure Strategy Nash Equilibria in Non-zero Sum Colonel Blotto Games

International Journal of Game Theory, forthcoming (joint with Aniol Llorente-Saguer, Max Planck Institute)

Qualitative Voting

Journal of Theoretical Politics, forthcoming

Voter Turnout and Electoral Competition in a Multidimensional Policy Space

European Journal of Political Economy, Volume 27, Issue 2, 2011 (joint with Berta Esteve-Volart, York)

Voter Turnout in a Multidimensional Policy Space

Economics of Governance, Volume 12, Number 1, 2011 (joint with Berta Esteve-Volart, York)

A Simple Mechanism for Resolving Conflict

Games and Economic Behaviour, Volume 70, Issue 2, 2010 (joint with Aniol Llorente-Saguer, Max Planck Institute)

Inefficiencies on Linking Decisions

Social Choice and Welfare, Volume 34, Number 3, 2010

Internalising Team-Production Externalities through Delegation: The British Passenger Rail Sector as an Example

Economica, Volume 77, Issue 308, 2010 (joint with Miguel Sanchez, Alicante)

A Simple Model of Bank Disclosure and Subordinated Debt

Cuadernos de Economia, Vol 28, No. 77-78, 2005

Working Papers

Policy Learning and Elections

(joint with Torun Dewan, LSE)

Primaries: The Unifying Force

(joint with Hannes Mueller, Institut Analisi Economica, CSIC; GSE Barcelona)

Avoiding Collusion Through Discretion

(joint with Leonardo Felli, LSE) revise and resubmit Journal of Economic Theory

The Role of Information in Different Bargaining Protocols

(joint with Aniol Llorente-Saguer, Max Planck Institute, and Rosemarie Nagel, Pompeu Fabra), revise and resubmit Experimental Economics