Rafael HORTALA-VALLVE
Professor in Political Science and Public
Policy
Government Department
London School of Economics and Political
Science
Contact details
Government Department
Houghton Street
London, WC2A 2AE
United Kingdom
Research Interests
Political Economy. Formal Political
Science. Collective Decision-Making. Voting and Elections.
Experimental and Behavioural social
sciences. Coalition Formation. Executive organisation. Trust
I’m the organiser
of the Behavioural
Political Economy Workshop: 2019
programme, 2020
programme
I’m the
convenor of the MSc in Political Science and Political
Economy
Teaching (22/23)
GV4C8 Game
Theory for Political Science
GV4H6 Behavioural
Political Economy
GV4B3 MPA
Capstone Project
GV342L Philosophy,
Politics and Economics: Research Project
Working
Papers
Affective Polarisation in the
United Kingdom: Two Wallets Drops, an Election and a Referendum
(joint with Paul Dolan, Laura Kudrna and Kate Laffan)
Pre-Electoral Coalitions: Insights
into the Boundaries of Political Parties
(joint with Jaakko Meriläinen and Janne Tukiainen)
The Effect of Advisors’
Incentives on Clients' Investments
(joint with Diego Battiston, Jordi Blanes i Vidal and Dong Lou)
Trust and Its Determinants: Evidence from the Trustlab Experiment
(joint with the Trustlab group)
Behavioral Economics Measures Predict a Large Range of
Political Attitudes
(joint with the Trustlab group)
Perceived governance quality strongly predicts trust in public institutions
(joint with the Trustlab group)
Why do we trust others? Evidence from Germany, Italy, the
UK and the USA
(joint with Roxanne Kovacs, Maurice Dunaiski and Matteo M Galizzi)
Mobilising activism through the formation of social ties
(joint with Florian Foos and Jennifer Hodge)
Ultimatum game with costly information
acquisition
(joint with Marcus Roel)
Teams of rivals: learning about a cabinet and its shadow
(joint with Torun Dewan)
Published papers
Trusting Trust: An external validity
analysis
Games 2021, 12 (3) (joint with Sanchayan
Banerjee and Matteo M. Galizzi)
Conformity and Individuals’
Response to Information About Aggregate Turnout
Political Behavior, 2020 (joint
with Andre Blais)
Electoral competition, control and learning (online
Appendix)
British Journal of Political Science, Vol 49, Issue
3, 2019 (joint with Torun Dewan)
The effects of district magnitude
on voting behaviour
The Journal of Politics, Vol 79, Number 1, 2017 (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), Vol 5, Issue 3, 2017 (joint with Valentino
Larcinese)
Collusion, blackmail and whistle-blowing
Quarterly Journal of Political Science, Vol 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, Volume 163, Issue 3, 2015 (joint with Hannes
Mueller)
The role of information in
different bargaining protocols
Experimental
Economics,
Vol 16, 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