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Professor of European and Comparative Politics
Email: s.hix@lse.ac.uk|
Office: H307, Connaught House
Office Hours: Thurs 13:30-15:00 (By Appointment)
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 7657
Website: personal.lse.ac.uk/HIX/|
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Biography
Simon Hix joined the LSE in 1997 and was promoted to Professor in 2004. Simon took his undergraduate and masters degrees at the LSE and his PhD at the European University Institute, in Florence. He is Director of the Political Science and Political Economy Group at the LSE and is the co-editor of the journal European Union Politics. He has held visiting appointments at several top universities, including Stanford, Berkeley, UC San Diego, Sciences-Po in Paris, the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, the College of Europe in Bruges, and Korean Institute for International Economic Policy in Seoul. Simon has extensive consultancy experience, including for the UK Cabinet Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office, the European Parliament, the European Commission, the European Policy Centre, the Asian Development Bank, and has given evidence to the European affairs committees in the House of Lords and House of Commons. He has written several books on EU and comparative politics, including most recently "What's Wrong With the EU and How to Fix It" (Polity, 2008). In 2008 he won the prestigious Fenno Prize from the American Political Science Association for his book (co-authored with Abdul Noury and Gerard Roland) "Democratic Politics in the European Parliament" (Cambridge, 2007), in 2005 he won the Longley Prize of the American Political Science Association for the best article on representation and electoral systems, and in 2004 he won a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Award.
Research Interests
European Union Politics and Policy, the EU legislative process and the European Parliament, parties and elections, rational choice theory.
Teaching Responsibilities
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GV351 Government, Politics and Public Policy in the European Union
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GV4C6 Legislative Politics: European Parliament
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GV505 Research Design in Political Science
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GV101 Introduction to Political Science
Publications
Rules, norms, and commitment
Peter, Fabienne and Spiekermann, Kai (2011) Rules, norms, and commitment. In: Jarvie, Ian C. and Zamora-Bonilla, Jesus, (eds.) The Sage handbook of philosophy of social science. SAGE Publications Ltd, London, UK. ISBN 9781847874009
Epistemic aspects of representative government
Goodin, Robert E. and Spiekermann, Kai (2011) Epistemic aspects of representative government. European political science review, Online . pp. 1-23. ISSN 1755-7739
Epistemic democracy with defensible premises
Dietrich, Franz and Spiekermann, Kai (2010) Epistemic democracy with defensible premises. Working papers, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
Independent opinions?
Dietrich, Franz and Spiekermann, Kai (2010) Independent opinions? Working papers, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
Judgement aggregation and distributed thinking
Spiekermann, Kai (2010) Judgement aggregation and distributed thinking. AI & society, 25 (4). pp. 401-412. ISSN 1435-5655
Courts of many minds
Spiekermann, Kai and Goodin, Robert E. (2010) Courts of many minds. Working paper series, Social Science Electronic Publishing.
Epistemic aspects of representative government
Goodin, Robert E. and Spiekermann, Kai (2010) Epistemic aspects of representative government. London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
Sort out your neighbourhood: public good games on dynamic networks
Spiekermann, Kai (2009) Sort out your neighbourhood: public good games on dynamic networks. Synthese, 168 (2). pp. 273-294. ISSN 1573-0964
What the neighbours think: state-building, esteem and political culture
Spiekermann, Kai (2009) What the neighbours think: state-building, esteem and political culture. In: Raue, Julia and Sutter, Patrick, (eds.) Facets and practices of state-building. Brill, Leiden, The Netherlands. ISBN 9789004174030
Reply: clubbish justice
Spiekermann, Kai (2008) Reply: clubbish justice. Politics, philosophy and economics, 7 (4). pp. 447-453. ISSN 1470-594X
Translucency, assortation, and information pooling: how groups solve social dilemmas
Spiekermann, Kai (2007) Translucency, assortation, and information pooling: how groups solve social dilemmas. Politics, philosophy and economics, 6 (3). pp. 285-306. ISSN 1470-594X