Simon Hix

Simon Hix is a British political scientist and is Harold Laski Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science.[1] He is set to join the department of political and social sciences of the European University Institute in September 2021 as Stein Rokkan chair in comparative politics.[2] Hix is an expert in European Union politics, and the author of several books, including What's Wrong with the European Union and How to Fix It,[3] Democratic Politics in the European Parliament with Abdul Noury and Gérard Roland, and The Political System of the European Union.[4] He is also associate editor of the international peer-reviewed European Union Politics,[5] and founder and chairman of VoteWatch Europe, an influential online EU affairs think-tank founded in London in 2009 that combines big data with political insight.[6] Simon Hix obtained a PhD in Political and Social Science at the European University Institute in Florence in 1995, and lectured in European Politics at Brunel University 1996–97, before joining the LSE in 1997.[1] His main areas of research are voting in parliaments, democratic institutions, and EU politics.[7][8]

Simon Hix

FBA
Simon Hix at California House London 2006.
NationalityBritish
OccupationHarold Laski Professor of Political Science, Pro-Director (Research)
Board member ofAssociate editor of European Union Politics
Chairman of VoteWatch Europe
AwardsFellow of the British Academy
Doctor Honoris Causa
Academic background
Alma materLondon School of Economics
European University Institute
ThesisPolitical parties in the European Union system : a 'comparative politics approach' to the development of the party federations (1995)
Doctoral advisorGiandomenico Majone
Academic work
DisciplinePolitical Science
InstitutionsLondon School of Economics and Political Science
Doctoral studentsGiacomo Benedetto, Sara Hagemann
Notable studentsClaudiu Crăciun
Websitehttp://personal.lse.ac.uk/hix/

Distinctions

Simon Hix was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2011.[9] In 2015 he was named the inaugural Harold Laski Chair at the London School of Economics and Political Science.[10] Later that year he was awarded a degree of Doctor Honoris Causa by the National School of Political and Administrative Studies in Bucharest.[11]

Publications
  • Hix, Simon; Høyland, Bjørn (2011). The Political System of the European Union. The European Union Series (3rd ed.). Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230249813. OCLC 803832782.
  • Hix, Simon (2013) [First published in 2008]. What's Wrong with the European Union and How to Fix It. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9780745658377. OCLC 899161144.
  • Hix, Simon; Noury, Abdul G.; Gérard, Roland (2007). Democratic Politics in the European Parliament. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521694605. OCLC 442372456.
  • Hix, Simon; Høyland, Bjørn (2005). The Political System of the European Union. The European Union Series (2nd ed.). Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230802315. OCLC 870195167.
  • Hix, Simon; Raunio, Tapio; Scully, Roger (2003). "Fifty Years on: Research on the European Parliament". JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies. Blackwell Science Ltd. 41 (2): 191–202. doi:10.1111/1468-5965.00418. ISSN 0021-9886 – via John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
  • Götz, Klaus H.; Hix, Simon, eds. (2001). Europeanised Politics? : European Integration and National Political Systems. Frank Cass. ISBN 9780714651415. OCLC 237440109.
  • The Political System of the European Union (1999), London: Palgrave.
  • Political Parties in the European Union (1997), with Christopher Lord, London: Macmillan.

References
  1. http://personal.lse.ac.uk/hix/HixCV.pdf, Simon Hix CV at LSE
  2. "Simon Hix". European University Institute. Retrieved 31 December 2020.
  3. Viewpoint: A truly European vote?, BBC News, 5 May 2009
  4. Amazon.com: Books by Simon Hix
  5. "Editorial board". European Union Politics. SAGE Publications Ltd. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
  6. "VoteWatch Europe announced as the most influential (online) EU affairs think tank over the past 6 months!". VoteWatch Europe. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
  7. Time to catch up with reality, Financial Times, 28 February 2011
  8. Leaders turn their backs on Giscard's vision, Financial Times, 21 November 2009
  9. "Professor Simon Hix". British Academy. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
  10. "LSE announces first Harold Laski Chair". London School of Economics and Political Science. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
  11. "Simon Hix - Doctor Honoris Causa". Şcoala Naţională de Studii Politice şi Administrative. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
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