Researching Simon Hix
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![]() | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 108 people with the Hix surname? In that year Hix was ranked number 3471 for popularity in the UK. |

The name Simon means "he who hears" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of Simon Hix on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Simon Hix and the Hix Genealogy
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![]() | Did you know that there are currently 96 people with the Hix surname in the UK? Hix is now ranked number 3952 for popularity in the UK. |
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Simon Hix
Simon Hix is a British political scientist, holder of the Stein Rokkan chair in comparative politics at the European University Institute in Florence. He was also Harold Laski Professor of Political Science and pro-director for research at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Hix is an expert in European Union politics, and the author of several books, including What's Wrong with the European Union and How to Fix It, Democratic Politics in the European Parliament with Abdul Noury and Gérard Roland, and The Political System of the European Union. He is also associate editor of the international peer-reviewed European Union Politics, 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. After a first degree and a master's from the London School of Economics and Political Science, 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. In this university he was promoted to professor in 2004, and served also as head of its department of government (2012-2015), academic director of its school of public policy (2017-2019), and pro-director for research from 2019. He finally was appointed Stein Rokkan chair of comparative politics at the European University Institute in Florence in 2021. His main areas of research are voting in parliaments, democratic institutions, and EU politics.
Source: Simon Hix, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Other names that sound a bit like Hix
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