Simon Hix is a British

political scientist Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions an ...

, holder of the

Stein Rokkan Stein Rokkan (July 4, 1921 – July 22, 1979) was a Norwegian political scientist and sociologist. He was the first professor of sociology at the University of Bergen and a principal founder of the discipline of comparative politics. He founde ...

chair in comparative politics at the

European University Institute The European University Institute (EUI) is an international postgraduate and post-doctoral teaching and research institute and an independent body of the European Union with juridical personality, established by the member states to contrib ...

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. He was also

Harold Laski Harold Joseph Laski (30 June 1893 – 24 March 1950) was an English political theorist and economist. He was active in politics and served as the chairman of the British Labour Party from 1945 to 1946 and was a professor at the London School of ...

Professor of Political Science and pro-director for research at the

London School of Economics and Political Science , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 millio ...

. Hix is an expert in

European Union The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe. The union has a total area of and an estimated total population of about 447million. The EU has often been ...

politics, and the author of several books, including ''What's Wrong with the European Union and How to Fix It'', ''Democratic Politics in the European Parliament'' with

Abdul Noury Abdul (also transliterated as Abdal, Abdel, Abdil, Abdol, Abdool, or Abdoul; ar, عبد ال, ) is the most frequent transliteration of the combination of the Arabic word '' Abd'' (, meaning "Servant") and the definite prefix '' al / el'' (, mea ...

and Gérard Roland, and ''The Political System of the European Union''. He is also associate editor of the international peer-reviewed

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, 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. After a first degree and a master's from the

, Simon Hix obtained a PhD in Political and Social Science at the

in Florence in 1995, and lectured in European Politics at

Brunel University Brunel University London is a public research university located in the Uxbridge area of London, England. It was founded in 1966 and named after the Victorian engineer and pioneer of the Industrial Revolution, Isambard Kingdom Brunel. In June 1 ...

1996–97, before joining the LSE in 1997.http://personal.lse.ac.uk/hix/HixCV.pdf, Simon Hix CV at LSE In this university he was promoted to professor in 2004, and served also as head of its department of government (2012–2015), academic director of its school of public policy (2017–2019), and pro-director for research from 2019. He finally was appointed

chair of comparative politics at the

in Florence in 2021. His main areas of research are voting in parliaments, democratic institutions, and EU politics.

Distinctions

Simon Hix was elected a

Fellow of the British Academy Fellowship of the British Academy (FBA) is an award granted by the British Academy to leading academics for their distinction in the humanities and social sciences. The categories are: # Fellows – scholars resident in the United Kingdom # C ...

in 2011. In 2015 he was named the inaugural

Chair at the

. Later that year he was awarded a degree of Doctor Honoris Causa by the National School of Political and Administrative Studies in Bucharest. In 2021 he was appointed

Chair in comparative politics at the

Publications

*''Political Parties in the European Union'' (1997), with Christopher Lord, London: Macmillan. *''The Political System of the European Union'' (1999), London: Palgrave. *Götz, Klaus H.; Hix, Simon, eds. (2001)
''Europeanised Politics? : European Integration and National Political Systems''
Frank Cass. . . *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. .

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br>0021-9886
– via John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. *Hix, Simon; Høyland, Bjørn (2005)
''The Political System of the European Union''
The European Union Series (2nd ed.). Palgrave Macmillan. . . *Hix, Simon; Noury, Abdul G.; Gérard, Roland (2007)
''Democratic Politics in the European Parliament''
Cambridge University Press. . . *Hix, Simon (2013) irst published in 2008br>''What's Wrong with the European Union and How to Fix It''
John Wiley & Sons. . . *Hix, Simon; Høyland, Bjørn (2011)
''The Political System of the European Union''
The European Union Series (3rd ed.). Palgrave Macmillan. . .

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hix, Simon Academics of the London School of Economics Fellows of the British Academy Living people British political scientists Place of birth missing (living people) European Union and European integration scholars European University Institute alumni European University Institute faculty Alumni of the London School of Economics 1968 births