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2026
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2023

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D-Index
56
Citations
25885
World Ranking
147
National Ranking
7

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Political Science in Italy Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Political Science in Italy Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in United Kingdom Leader Award

Overview

Simon Hix is affiliated with the European University Institute in Italy. Their research spans political science and international relations with a focus on electoral systems, European Union policy, and political participation.

Recent papers published by Simon Hix include:

  • The political space in the European parliament: Measuring MEPs' preferences amid the rise of Euroscepticism, 2023, European Journal of Political Research
  • Where is the EU-UK relationship heading? A conjoint survey experiment of Brexit trade-offs, 2022, European Union Politics

Additional notable papers from the broader dataset connected to their research interests include:

  • The Rise and Fall of Social Democracy, 1918-2017, 2020, American Political Science Review
  • Electoral Reform and Strategic Coordination, 2020, British Journal of Political Science
  • Brahmin Left versus Merchant Right? Education, class, multiparty competition, and redistribution in Western Europe, 2021, British Journal of Sociology

Simon Hix collaborates frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Sara B. Hobolt
  • Bjørn Høyland
  • Jon H. Fiva
  • Eric Kaufmann
  • Thomas J. Leeper

Their work appears most often in the following publication venues:

  • Harvard Dataverse
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • European Journal of Political Research
  • British Journal of Political Science
  • European Union Politics

Simon Hix's research covers several subfields, including:

  • Political Science and International Relations
  • Gender Studies
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Development

Main topics of their work include:

  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation
  • Social Policy and Reform Studies
  • European Union Policy and Governance
  • Populism, Right-Wing Movements
  • Gender Politics and Representation
  • International Development and Aid
  • Political Systems and Governance

Simon Hix has also contributed to book publications, including a title published by Latin America Research Commons eBooks:

  • Populism: Origins and Alternative Policy Responses, 2022

Best Publications

  • The Political System of the European Union

    Simon Hix

  • Why There is a Democratic Deficit in the EU: A Response to Majone and Moravcsik

    Andreas Follesdal;Simon Hix

  • Political parties in the European Union

    Simon Hix;Christopher Lord

  • Democratic Politics in the European Parliament

    Simon Hix;Abdul G. Noury;Gérard Roland

  • The Political System of the European Union

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  • The study of the European community: The challenge to comparative politics

    Simon Hix

  • The study of the European Union II: the ‘new governance’ agenda and its rival

    Simon Hix

  • Dimensions and alignments in european union politics: Cognitive constraints and partisan responses

    Simon Hix

  • Punishment or Protest? Understanding European Parliament Elections

    Simon Hix;Michael Marsh

  • Dimensions of Politics in the European Parliament

    Simon Hix;Abdul Noury;Gérard Roland

  • Power to the Parties: Cohesion and Competition in the European Parliament, 1979–2001

    Simon Hix;Abdul Noury;Gérard Roland

  • Parliamentary behaviour with two principals: preferences, parties, and voting in the European parliament

    Simon Hix

  • Electoral Institutions and Legislative Behavior: Explaining Voting Defection in the European Parliament

    Simon Hix

  • The Electoral Sweet Spot: Low‐Magnitude Proportional Electoral Systems

    John M. Carey;Simon Hix

  • Second-order effects plus pan-European political swings: An analysis of European Parliament elections across time

    Simon Hix;Michael Marsh

  • Constitutional Agenda-Setting Through Discretion in Rule Interpretation: Why the European Parliament Won at Amsterdam

    Simon Hix

  • Defining the Eu Political Space: An Empirical Study of the European Elections Manifestos, 1979-1999

    Matthew Gabel;Simon Hix

  • Legislative Behaviour and Party Competition in the European Parliament: An Application of Nominate to the EU

    Simon Hix

  • What's wrong with the European Union and how to fix it

    Simon Hix

  • Backbenchers learn to fight back: European integration and parliamentary government

    Tapio Raunio;Simon Hix

  • Empowerment of the European Parliament

    Simon Hix;Bjørn Høyland

  • After enlargement: voting patterns in the sixth European Parliament

    Simon Hix;Abdul Ghafar Noury

  • Democratic politics in the European Parliament

    Abdul Ghafar Noury;Simon Hix;Gérard Roland

  • The political system of European Union

    Simon Hix

  • The Electoral Sweet Spot: Low-Magnitude Proportional Electoral Systems

    Simon Hix;John M. Carey

Frequent Co-Authors

Gérard Roland
Gérard Roland University of California, Berkeley
Christopher J. Lord
Christopher J. Lord Institute of Cancer Research
Matthew Gabel
Matthew Gabel Washington University in St. Louis
John M. Carey
John M. Carey Dartmouth College
Roger Scully
Roger Scully Hong Kong Baptist University
Tapio Raunio
Tapio Raunio Tampere University
Sara B. Hobolt
Sara B. Hobolt London School of Economics and Political Science
Ron Johnston
Ron Johnston University of Bristol
Iain McLean
Iain McLean University of Oxford

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