Simon Hix

Simon Hix
FBA
Simon Hix at VoteWatch 2014 launch
Born (1968-09-05) September 5, 1968
Nationality British
Occupation Harold Laski Professor of Political Science
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 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 London School of Economics and Political Science
Doctoral students Giacomo Benedetto, Sara Hagemann
Website http://personal.lse.ac.uk/hix/

Simon Hix is a British political scientist and Harold Laski Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science.[1] He is an expert in European Union politics, and author of highly influential publications in this field.[2] He is also associate editor of the international peer-reviewed European Union Politics,[3] 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.[4] In January 2019 he will be taking over from Prof. Julia Black as Pro-Director (Research) at the London School of Economics and Political Science.[5]

Early life

Simon Hix was the son of Godfrey and Maureen Hix of Brighton. His mother retired as a teacher at the Herne Junior School in Crowborough. His father retired as the head of Plans Practice, a division of HM Land Registry in London.[6] Hix started at the LSE in 1987 as an undergraduate student of Government and History, and then studied a master's in West European Politics between 1990 and 1992. It was during this time that he met his future wife Beth, an American visiting student.[7] They both co-founded the Migration Policy Group, an organization based in Brussels that studies immigration worldwide, before their marriage in Long Island City, Queens, in 1995.[8] They had two kids, Ben and Ruth.[9]

Academic career and scientific contribution

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.[1] He was promoted to full professor in 2004.[10] His main areas of research are voting in parliaments, democratic institutions, and EU politics.[11][12] Hix's main contribution to the study of the European Union and to political science in general consists in treating the EU as not inherently sui generis or unique, but a political system that can be analysed with the tools of comparative politics.[13][14]

Distinctions

His book, co-authored with Abdul Noury and Gerard Roland, on Democratic Politics in the European Parliament won the Richard F. Fenno Jr. Prize for the best book on legislative studies published in 2007, from the Legislative Studies Section of the American Political Science Association.[15] Hix was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2011.[16] In 2013, on the 40th anniversary of the Accession of the United Kingdom to the European Communities, EURACTIV included Hix in their list of “the 40 most influential Brits on EU policy”.[17] In 2015 he was named the inaugural Harold Laski Chair at the London School of Economics and Political Science.[18] Later that year he was awarded a degree of Doctor Honoris Causa by the National School of Political and Administrative Studies in Bucharest.[19]

Service to society

Since 2014, Hix is elected Vice-Chair of the Governor Board of West London Free School.[20]

Selected works

  • 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. ISBN 9780714651415. OCLC 237440109.
  • 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. doi:10.1111/1468-5965.00418. ISSN 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. ISBN 9780230802315. OCLC 870195167.
  • Hix, Simon; Noury, Abdul G.; Gérard, Roland (2007). Democratic Politics in the European Parliament. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521694605. OCLC 442372456.
  • Hix, Simon (2013) [First published in 2008]. What's Wrong with the European Union and How to Fix It. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 9780745658377. OCLC 899161144.
  • Hix, Simon; Høyland, Bjørn (2011). The Political System of the European Union. The European Union Series (3rd ed.). Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230249813. OCLC 803832782.

References

  1. 1 2 http://personal.lse.ac.uk/hix/HixCV.pdf, Simon Hix CV at LSE
  2. ↑ "Simon Hix". Google Scholar Citations. Retrieved 14 September 2018.
  3. ↑ "Editorial board". European Union Politics. SAGE Publications Ltd. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
  4. ↑ "VoteWatch Europe announced as the most influential (online) EU affairs think tank over the past 6 months!". VoteWatch Europe. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
  5. ↑ "LSE appoints new Pro-Director". London School of Economics and Political Science. 9 September 2018. Retrieved 14 September 2018.
  6. ↑ "WEDDINGS; Beth A. Ginsburg, Simon Jeremy Hix". The New York Times. 27 August 1995. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
  7. ↑ "Staff News: 60 Second Interview with Professor Simon Hix". London School of Economics and Political Science. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  8. ↑ "WEDDINGS; Beth A. Ginsburg, Simon Jeremy Hix". The New York Times. 27 August 1995. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
  9. ↑ "Staff News: 60 Second Interview with Professor Simon Hix". London School of Economics and Political Science. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  10. ↑ "Staff News: 60 Second Interview with Professor Simon Hix". London School of Economics and Political Science. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  11. ↑ Time to catch up with reality, Financial Times, 28 February 2011
  12. ↑ Leaders turn their backs on Giscard's vision, Financial Times, 21 November 2009
  13. ↑ "The study of the European Union II: the 'new governance' agenda and its rival". Journal of European Public Policy. 5 (1): 38–65. 1998. doi:10.1080/13501768880000031.
  14. ↑ Hix, Simon (1999). The political system of the European Union. London: Macmillan.
  15. ↑ "Richard F. Fenno Jr. Prize". Legislative Studies. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
  16. ↑ "Professor Simon Hix". British Academy. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
  17. ↑ "Professor Simon Hix". London School of Economics and Political Science. Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  18. ↑ "LSE announces first Harold Laski Chair". London School of Economics and Political Science. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
  19. ↑ "Simon Hix - Doctor Honoris Causa". Scoala Nationala de Studii Politice si Administrative. Retrieved 31 December 2017.
  20. ↑ Hix, Simon. "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). Personal Web Pages. LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE. Retrieved 18 June 2018.
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