Simon Hix

Non-Resident Fellow
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Simon Hix
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Simon Hix is the Stein Rokkan Chair in Comparative Politics at the European University Institute, in Florence.  

He is a Fellow of the British Academy, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

His main areas of research and teaching are Comparative, European, and EU political behaviour and institutions – in particular parties and party systems, public opinion and voting behaviour, electoral systems and the design of democracy, and legislative behaviour.

European Policies

Who Will Win the European Parliament Election: The Final Forecast
2024

In our first forecast for the EP 2024 elections based on our model, in January 2024, we predicted a “sharp right turn”.  In our latest forecast, and our final one before the election, we are still forecasting that the next EP will be considerably more right-leaning than the current one, and that the two groups to the right of the EPP will be considerably larger than they currently are.

wEUbinars

The Future of the EU Institutions: Understanding the Role of the European Parliament in Shaping EU Action
06/06/2024 - 06/06/2024
WEBINAR

In view of the European Parliamentary elections IEP@BU has launched a series of webinars on the future of the EU institutions. In the next event, we will discuss the increasing importance of the European Parliament. With Maurizio Ferrera, Simon Hix, and Eleanor Spaventa.

European Policies

The von der Leyen Effect: Does Visibility Lead to Accountability?

In an eupinions poll (supported by the Bertelsmann Foundation and IEP@BU) ahead of June’s European election, most voters – three in four – were able to identify Ursula von der Leyen as head of the EU executive, showing decisively how the Commission president has managed to cut through national media filters to become far more recognisable than her predecessors.