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

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.