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Overview

Simon Hug is affiliated with the University of Geneva in Switzerland. Their research work focuses primarily on social sciences, with specific contributions to the fields of sociology and political science, political science and international relations, gender studies, strategy and management, and development.

Their scholarly output includes research on a range of themes in politics and governance. The main topics they have worked on include:

  • Electoral Systems and Political Participation
  • Political Conflict and Governance
  • Gender Politics and Representation
  • Political Influence and Corporate Strategies
  • Peacebuilding and International Security
  • International Development and Aid
  • Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography

Simon Hug has published multiple papers across various peer-reviewed journals. Notable publications include:

  • Civilian Victimization and Ethnic Civil War, 2020, Journal of Conflict Resolution
  • Conflict versus Disaster-induced Displacement: Similar or Distinct Implications for Security?, 2021, Civil Wars
  • Parliaments Day-by-Day: A New Open Source Database to Answer the Question of Who Was in What Parliament, Party, and Party-group, and When, 2021, Legislative Studies Quarterly
  • Shirking and Slacking in Parliament, 2020, Legislative Studies Quarterly
  • Decision-making in the United Nations General Assembly: A comprehensive database of resolution-related decisions, 2025, The Review of International Organizations

The scientist has been frequently published in the following venues:

  • Legislative Studies Quarterly
  • The Review of International Organizations
  • Harvard Dataverse
  • Journal of Conflict Resolution
  • Civil Wars

Simon Hug has also contributed to academic literature through book publication, notably with Cambridge University Press. Among the books is Sharing Power, Securing Peace?, published in 2022.

Collaboration has been a notable aspect of their academic work. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Elena Frech
  • Niels D. Goet
  • Lars-Erik Cederman
  • Julian Wucherpfennig
  • Heidrun Bohnet

Best Publications

  • In View of Ratification: Governmental Preferences and Domestic Constraints at the Amsterdam Intergovernmental Conference

    Simon Hug;Thomas König

  • Altering Party Systems: Strategic Behavior and the Emergence of New Political Parties in Western Democracies

    Simon Hug

  • Democratization and Civil War: Empirical evidence

    Lars-Erik Cederman;Simon Hug;Simon Hug;Lutz F. Krebs

  • Veto Players and Referendums around the World

    Simon Hug;George Tsebelis

  • Legislative Voting Behavior, Seen and Unseen: A Theory of Roll-Call Vote Selection

    Clifford Carrubba;Matthew Gabel;Simon Hug

  • Territorial Autonomy in the Shadow of Conflict: Too Little, Too Late?

    Lars-Erik Cederman;Simon Hug;Andreas Schädel;Julian Wucherpfennig

  • Selection Effects in Roll Call Votes

    Simon Hug

  • Referendums on European Integration: Do Institutions Matter in the Voter's Decision?

    Simon Hug;Pascal Sciarini

  • Interests and information in referendum voting: An analysis of Swiss voters

    Thomas Christin;Simon Hug;Pascal Sciarini

  • Elections and Ethnic Civil War

    Lars-Erik Cederman;Kristian Skrede Gleditsch;Simon Hug

  • Selection Bias in Comparative Research: The Case of Incomplete Data Sets

    Simon Hug

  • Voices of Europe: Citizens, Referendums, and European Integration

    Simon Hug

  • Left—Right Positions of Political Parties in Switzerland

    Simon Hug;Tobias Schulz

  • Qualitative Comparative Analysis: How Inductive Use and Measurement Error Lead to Problematic Inference

    Simon Hug

  • Occurrence and Policy Consequences of Referendums A Theoretical Model and Empirical Evidence

    Simon Hug

  • Ratifying Maastricht: Parliamentary Votes on International Treaties and Theoretical Solution Concepts

    Thomas König;Simon Hug

  • Endogenous Preferences And Delegation In The European Union

    Simon Hug

  • Referendums, trust, and tax evasion

    Simon Hug;Franziska Spörri

  • Policy Making and Commission Appointment in the European Union

    Christophe Crombez;Simon Hug

  • Referendums in the EU’s constitution building process

    Simon Hug;Tobias Schulz

  • Party Unity in the Swiss Parliament The Electoral Connection

    Denise Traber;Simon Hug;Pascal Sciarini

  • Preferences or blocs? Voting in the United Nations Human Rights Council

    Simon Hug;Richard Lukács

  • Altering party systems

    Simon Hug

Frequent Co-Authors

Pascal Sciarini
Pascal Sciarini University of Geneva
Kristian Skrede Gleditsch
Kristian Skrede Gleditsch University of Essex
Thomas König
Thomas König University of Mannheim
Lars P. Feld
Lars P. Feld Walter Eucken Institut
Scott Gates
Scott Gates Peace Research Institute
George Tsebelis
George Tsebelis University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Kaare Strøm
Kaare Strøm University of California, San Diego
Hanspeter Kriesi
Hanspeter Kriesi European University Institute
Frédéric Varone
Frédéric Varone University of Geneva

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