Simon Hix
Room CON.H307
Government Department
LSE, Houghton Street
London, WC2A 2AE, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7955 7657
E-mail:
s.hix@lse.ac.uk
last updated on:
24 February 2012
Research
Working Papers
Voting Behaviour in Parliaments
Government-Opposition or Left-Right? The Institutional Determinants of Voting in Legislatures, research paper, with Abdul Noury (March 2011).
Scaling the Commons: Using MPs' Left-Right Self-Placement and Voting Divisions to Map the British Parliament, 1997-2005, research paper, with Abdul Noury (September 2010)
From Preferences to Behaviour: Comparing MEPs' Survey Responses and Roll-Call Voting Behaviour, research paper, with Matthew Gabel (May 2007).
Democratic Deficit and Institutional Design in the European Union
What to Expect in the 2009-14 European Parliament: Return of the Grand Coalition?, Policy Paper No. 8/2009, Stockholm: SEIPS.
Why the EU Needs (Left-Right) Politics: Policy Reform and Accountability are Impossible Without It, Policy Paper No. 19, Paris: Notre Europe.
Possibilities for Euro Parties: 2004 and Beyond. Policy paper prepared for an on-line discussion on the future of EU Democracy, organised by Open Democracy (March 2004).
The End of Democracy in Europe? How the European Union (As Currently Designed) Restricts Political Competition. Research paper presented at a conference "Democracy in Europe" at Harvard University, which I will eventually revise! (April 2003).
Linking National Politics to Europe: A Proposal to Elect the
Commission President by National Parliaments,
pamphlet for the Foreign Policy Centre. This is one of the papers submitted to the
Convention on the Future of Europe (June 2002).
(A
scenario
to illustrate how the proposal might
work).
Why the EU Should Have a Single President and How She Should be Elected, paper for the Working Group on Democracy in the EU for the British Cabinet Office (April 2002).
Comparative Constitutional Design
The Electoral Sweet Spot: Low-Magnitude Proportional Electoral Systems, with John Carey, research paper (June 2009).
Reconsidering the Economic Effects of Constitutions, with Matthew Gabel and Michael Malecki, research paper (October 2008).
An East Asian Single Market? Lessons from the European Union, working paper for the Korean Institute for International Economic Policy (KIEP), Seoul. With Hae-Won Jun (March 2005).
Ranking of Political Science Departments
Simon
Hix (2004)
A
Global Ranking of Political Science Departments',
Political Studies Review 2(3) 293-313. This paper presents the results of an analysis of the output of
political science departments in 63 political science journals between
1993 and 2002.
The Top
400 Political Science Departments, 1993-2002
Recently Published Research
Christophe Crombez and Simon Hix (2011) 'Treaty Reform and the Commission's Appointment and Policy Making Role in the European Union', European Union Politics, 12(3) 291-314. (pdf)
John Carey and Simon Hix (2011) 'The Electoral Sweet Spot: Low-Magnitude Proportional Electoral Systems', American Journal of Political Science 55(2) 383-339. (pdf)
Simon Hix and Michael Marsh (2011) 'Second-Order Effects Plus Pan-European Political Swings: An Analysis of European Parliament Elections Across Time', Electoral Studies, 30(1) 4-15. (pdf)
Simon Hix, Bjorn Hoyland and Nick Vivyan (2010) 'From Doves to Hawks: A Spatial Analysis of Voting in the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England', European Journal of Political Research, 49(6) 731-758. (pdf)
Hae-Won Jun and Simon Hix (2010) 'Electoral Systems, Political Career Paths and Legislative Behavior: Evidence from South Korea's Mixed-Member System', Japanese Journal of Political Science 11(2) 153-171. (pdf) (Replication files)
Simon Hix, Ron Johnston and Iain McLean (2010) Choosing an Electoral System, London: British Academy. (pdf)
Simon Hix, Abdul Noury and Gerard Roland (2009) 'Voting Patterns and Alliance Formation in the European Parliament', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 364, 821-831. (pdf)
Hae-Won Jun and Simon Hix (2009) 'Party Behaviour in the Parliamentary Arena: The Case of the Korean National Assembly', Party Politics 15(6) 667-694. (pdf) (Replication files)
Simon Hix and Sara Hagemann (2009) 'Could Changing the Electoral Rules Fix European Parliament Elections?', Politique Europeenne 28, 27-41. (pdf)
Simon Hix and Abdul Noury (2009) 'After Enlargement: Voting Patterns in the Sixth European Parliament', Legislative Studies Quarterly, 34(2) 159-174. (pdf)
Bjorn Hoyland, Indraneel Sircar and Simon Hix (2009) 'An Automated Database of the European Parliament', European Union Politics, 10(1) 143-152. (pdf)
Simon Hix (2008) 'Towards a Partisan Theory of EU Politics', Journal of European Public Policy 15(8) 1254-1265. (pdf)
Andreas Warntjen, Simon Hix and Christophe Crombez (2008) 'The Party Political Make-Up of EU Legislative Bodies', Journal of European Public Policy 15(8) 1243-1253. (pdf)
Simon Hix (2008) 'The EU as a New Political System', in Daniele Caramani (ed.) Comparative Politics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 573-601. (pdf)
Giacomo Benedetto and Simon Hix (2007) 'The Rejected, the Dejected and the Ejected: Explaining Government Rebels in the 2001-2005 British House of Commons', Comparative Political Studies 40(7) 755-781. (pdf)
Giacomo Benedetto and Simon Hix (2007) 'Explaining the European Parliament's Gains in the EU Constitution', Review of International Organization 2(2) 115-129. (pdf)
Simon Hix and Michael Marsh (2007) 'Punishment or Protest? Understanding European Parliament Elections', The Journal of Politics 69(2) 495-510. (pdf)
Simon Hix and Abdul Noury (2007) 'Politics not Economic Interests: Determinants of Migration Policies in the European Union', International Migration Review 41(1) 182-205. (pdf)
Simon Hix (2007) 'Euroscepticism as Anti-Centralization: A Rational Choice Institutionalist Perspective', European Union Politics 8(1) 131-150. (pdf)
Andreas Follesdal and Simon Hix (2006) 'Why There is a Democratic Deficit in the EU: A Response to Majone and Moravcsik', Journal of Common Market Studies 44(3) 533-562. (pdf)
Simon Hix, Abdul Noury and Gerard Roland (2006) 'Dimensions of Politics in the European Parliament', American Journal of Political Science 50(2) 494-511. (pdf)
Simon Hix and Christophe Crombez (2005) 'Extracting Ideal Point Estimates from Actors' Preferences in the EU Constitutional Negotiations', European Union Politics 6(3) 353-376. (pdf)
Simon Hix, Abdul Noury and Gerard Roland (2005) 'Power to the Parties: Cohesion and Competition in the European Parliament, 1979-2001', British Journal of Political Science 35(2) 209-234. (pdf)
Simon Hix (2005) 'Neither a Preference-Outlier nor a Unitary Actor: Institutional Reform Preferences of the European Parliament', Comparative European Politics 3(2) 131-154. (pdf)
Matthew Gabel and Simon Hix (2005) 'Understanding Public Support for British Membership of the Single Currency', Political Studies 53(1) 65-81. (pdf)
Simon Hix (2004) 'Electoral Institutions and Legislative Behavior: Explaining Voting Defection in the European Parliament', World Politics 56(1) 194-223. (pdf)
Simon Hix (2004) 'A Global Ranking of Political Science Departments', Political Studies Review 2(3) 293-313. (pdf)
Simon Hix and Amie Kreppel (2003) 'From Grand Coalition to Left-Right Confrontation: Explaining the Shifting Structure of Party Competition in the European Parliament', Comparative Political Studies 36(1/2) 75-96. (pdf)
Simon Hix, Tapio Raunio and Roger Scully (2003) 'Fifty Years On: Research on the European Parliament', Journal of Common Market Studies 41(2) 191-202. (pdf)
Simon Hix, Amie Kreppel and Abdul Noury (2003) 'The Party System in the European Parliament: Collusive or Competitive?', Journal of Common Market Studies 41(2) 309-331. (pdf)
Simon Hix (2002) 'Parliamentary Behavior with Two Principals: Preferences, Parties, and Voting in the European Parliament', American Journal of Political Science 46(3) 688-698. (pdf)
Simon Hix (2002) 'Constitutional Agenda-Setting Through Discretion in Rule Interpretation: Why the European Parliament Won at Amsterdam', British Journal of Political Science 32(2) 259-280. (pdf)
Matthew Gabel and Simon Hix (2002) 'Defining the EU Political Space: An Empirical Study of the European Elections Manifestos, 1979-1999', Comparative Political Studies 35(8) 934-964. (pdf)
Matthew Gabel, Simon Hix and Gerald Schneider (2002) 'Who Is Afraid of Cumulative Research? Improving Data on EU Politics', European Union Politics 3(4) 481-500. (pdf)