António Valentim

  • Assistant Professor of European Politics
  • London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London, UK
  • 04/04/2025
Researcher, Senior researcher, Advisor, Project lead Democracy and Governance Environment and Energy Public Policy and Regulation

Personal Summary

Dr. António Valentim is a political scientist specialising in comparative and environmental politics, with particular expertise in voter and politician behaviour, climate policy, and public responses to extreme weather events. His work also explores how political messaging and campaigns shape public opinion and electoral outcomes.

Drawing on insights from social psychology and comparative politics, António uses a combination of econometric analysis, survey experiments, and qualitative interviews in his research. His work has been featured in journals such as Nature Climate Change and British Journal of Political Science.

António holds a PhD in Political Science from Humboldt University Berlin and was a postdoctoral researcher at Yale University.

Website: https://antoniovalentim.github.io/
Expertise: climate politics; climate policy; public opinion; elections; political elites; political parties; Green parties
Regions: Europe, UK, Brazil
Methods: quantitative methods; policy evaluation; survey; survey experiments; causal inference with observational data; expert interviews; focus groups

Department/Centre

European Institute