Simon Hix FBA | |
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 Hix in 2014 | |
| Born | 5 September 1968 [1] |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Board member of | Associate editor of European Union Politics Chairman of VoteWatch Europe |
| Awards | Fellow of the British Academy Doctor Honoris Causa |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | London School of Economics European University Institute |
| Thesis | Political parties in the European Union system : a 'comparative politics approach' to the development of the party federations (1995) |
| Doctoral advisor | Giandomenico Majone |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Political Science |
| Institutions | European University Institute London School of Economics and Political Science |
| Doctoral students | Giacomo Benedetto Sara Hagemann |
| Notable students | Claudiu Crăciun Cristian Ghinea |
| Website | simonhix |
Simon Hix is a British political scientist,holder of the Stein Rokkan chair in comparative politics at the European University Institute in Florence. [2] His main areas of research are voting in parliaments,democratic institutions,and EU politics. [3] [4]
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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, [5] Democratic Politics in the European Parliament with Abdul Noury and Gérard Roland,and The Political System of the European Union. [6] He is also associate editor of the international peer-reviewed journal European Union Politics , [7] 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. [8]
After a first degree and a master's from the London School of Economics and Political Science, [9] 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. [10] 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. [11] He was also Harold Laski Professor of Political Science and pro-director for research at the London School of Economics and Political Science. [10] He finally was appointed Stein Rokkan chair of comparative politics at the European University Institute in Florence in 2021.
