Rafael HORTALA-VALLVE
Associate Professor 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
Research Interests
Political
Economy. Formal Political Science.
Public Economics. Collective
Decision-Making. Voting and Elections.
Experimental
and Behavioural social sciences. Coalition Formation.
Executive organisation. Social
Choice.
Teaching
(16/17)
GV478 Political
Science and Public Policy
GV4B3 MPA Capstone
Project
GV225 Public Choice
and Politics
Working
Papers
(joint with Andre Blais)
An experiment on non-constant sum
colonel blotto games
(joint with Aniol Llorente-Saguer)
Teams of rivals: learning about a cabinet and its
shadow
(joint with Torun Dewan)
Costly information and control
(joint with Aniol Llorente-Saguer and Valentino
Larcinese)
Published papers
Electoral competition, control
and learning (online Appendix)
British Journal of Political Science, forthcoming
(joint with Torun Dewan)
The effects of district
magnitude on voting behaviour
The Journal of
Politics, forthcoming
(joint with Simon Hix and Guillem
Riambau)
The perverse consequences of
policy restrictions in the presence of asymmetric information (online Appendix)
Political Science Research and Methods (JEPSA), forthcoming (joint with Valentino Larcinese)
Collusion, blackmail and
whistle-blowing
Quarterly Journal of Political Science, Volume 11, No. 3, 2016 (joint with Leonardo
Felli)
Are people more or less
inclined to vote when aggregate turnout is high?
In Voting
Experiments (Springer), 2016 (joint with Andre Blais)
Primaries: the unifying force
(online Appendix)
Public Choice, Vol 163, Issue 3, 2015 (joint with Hannes Mueller)
The role of information in
different bargaining protocols
Experimental Economics, Vol 16,
Issue 1, 2013 (joint with Aniol Llorente-Saguer
and Rosemarie Nagel)
Journal of
Theoretical Politics, Vol 24, no. 4, 2012
Pure strategy nash equilibria in non-zero sum
colonel blotto games
International
Journal of Game Theory, Vol 41, Issue 2, 2012 (joint with Aniol Llorente-Saguer)
The three A's of government
formation: appointment, allocation, and assignment
American
Journal of Political Science, Vol 55, Issue 3, 2011 (joint with Torun Dewan)
Generous
legislators? A description of vote trading agreements
Quarterly
Journal of Political Science, Vol 6, Issue 2, 2011
Voter turnout and electoral
competition in a multidimensional policy space
European
Journal of Political Economy, Vol 27, Issue 2, 2011 (joint with Berta Esteve-Volart)
Voter turnout in a
multidimensional policy space
Economics of
Governance, Vol 12, Number 1, 2011 (joint with Berta Esteve-Volart)
A simple mechanism for
resolving conflict
Games and
Economic Behaviour, Vol 70, Issue 2, 2010 (joint with Aniol Llorente-Saguer)
Inefficiencies on linking
decisions
Social Choice and Welfare,
Vol 34, Number 3, 2010
Economica, Vol 77, Issue
308, 2010 (joint with Miguel Sanchez)
A simple model of bank
disclosure and subordinated debt
Cuadernos de Economia, Vol 28, No. 77-78, 2005