page_title: Simon Hix
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caption_attribution_description: English: Simon Hix, British political scientist, at California House London 2006.
context_page_description: Simon Hix is a British political scientist and is Harold Laski Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He 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, Democratic Politics in the European Parliament with Abdul Noury and Gérard Roland, and The Political System of the European Union. He is also associate editor of the international peer-reviewed European Union Politics, 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. 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. His main areas of research are voting in parliaments, democratic institutions, and EU politics.
context_section_description: Simon Hix is a British political scientist and is Harold Laski Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He 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, Democratic Politics in the European Parliament with Abdul Noury and Gérard Roland, and The Political System of the European Union. He is also associate editor of the international peer-reviewed European Union Politics, 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. 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. His main areas of research are voting in parliaments, democratic institutions, and EU politics.
caption: Simon Hix at California House London 2006.
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