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Punishment or Protest? Understanding European Parliament Elections by Hix, Simon, Marsh, Michael

“…After six sets of European Parliament elections, do voters primarily use these elections to punish their national governments or to express their views on…”
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Brahmin Left versus Merchant Right? Education, class, multiparty competition, and redistribution in Western Europe by Abou‐Chadi, Tarik, Hix, Simon

“…In this article, we revisit the main claims of Part Four of Thomas Piketty's Capital and Ideology and especially the changing support coalitions for parties of…”
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Electoral Institutions and Legislative Behavior: Explaining Voting Defection in the European Parliament by Hix, Simon

“…Despite a sophisticated understanding of the impact of electoral institutions on macrolevel political behavior, little is known about the relationship between…”
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Power versus Ideology: Political Group Switching in the European Parliament by Hix, Simon, Noury, Abdul

“…Why do legislators switch party? We seek to identify whether “party switching” is mainly determined by power (to join a more influential party) or ideology (to…”
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The Rejected, the Ejected, and the Dejected: Explaining Government Rebels in the 2001-2005 British House of Commons by Benedetto, Giacomo, Hix, Simon

“…The combination of parliamentary government and plurality elections in the British House of Commons is often assumed to produce highly cohesive parliamentary…”
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National or European Parliamentarians? Evidence from a New Survey of the Members of the European Parliament by SCULLY, ROGER, HIX, SIMON, FARRELL, DAVID M.

“…This article presents findings from a new survey of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs), conducted in 2010. It explains the purpose of the survey, its…”
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Voting patterns and alliance formation in the European Parliament by Hix, Simon, Noury, Abdul, Roland, Gérard

“…Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have voluntarily formed transnational political groups and invariably follow the voting instructions of these groups…”
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Brexit: Where is the EU–UK Relationship Heading? by Hix, Simon

“…I am delivering this lecture almost two-thirds of the way between the June 2016 EU referendum and the day the UK is scheduled to leave the EU, yet the…”
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When Optimism Fails: Liberal Intergovernmentalism and Citizen Representation by Hix, Simon

“…Liberal Intergovernmentalism has a particular set of assumptions about the relationship between voters and governments. Either voters are content to trust…”
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Remaking democracy: Ireland as a role-model the 2019 Peter Mair lecture by Hix, Simon

“…Ireland has experienced many of the ('demand side') economic and cultural factors that have led to the rise of populism in democracies across the world: a…”
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Legislative Activity and Gridlock in the European Union by Crombez, Christophe, Hix, Simon

“…This article develops a game-theoretical model of European Union (EU) policy making that suggests that the amount of legislative activity depends on the size…”
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Empowerment of the European Parliament by Hix, Simon, Hoyland, Bjorn

“…One of the most remarkable democratic developments in Europe in recent decades has been the empowerment of the only directly elected supranational assembly in…”
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A Global Ranking of Political Science Departments by Hix, Simon

“…Rankings of academic institutions are key information tools for universities, funding agencies, students and faculty. The main method for ranking departments…”
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Why There is a Democratic Deficit in the EU: A Response to Majone and Moravcsik by FOLLESDAL, ANDREAS, HIX, SIMON

“…Giandomenico Majone and Andrew Moravcsik have argued that the EU does not suffer a ‘democratic deficit’. We disagree about one key element: whether a…”
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The political space in the European parliament: Measuring MEPs' preferences amid the rise of Euroscepticism by HIX, SIMON, WHITAKER, RICHARD, ZAPRYANOVA, GALINA

“…The 2014–2019 European Parliament (EP) contained an unprecedented number of Eurosceptic Members of the European Parliament (MEPs). These changes reflected a…”
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Does the UK Have Influence in the EU Legislative Process? by Hix, Simon

“…The UK has influenced some major EU policies, such as the creation of the single market and enlargement. But how influential are the UK government and British…”
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Towards a partisan theory of EU politics by Hix, Simon

“…A decade ago parties were largely absent from research on and theories of EU politics. The role of parties is now a central part of the research agenda,…”
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After Enlargement: Voting Patterns in the Sixth European Parliament by HIX, SIMON, NOURY, ABDUL

“…We examined how voting behavior in the European Parliament changed after the European Union added ten new member-states in 2004. Using roll-call votes, we…”
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Second-order effects plus pan-European political swings: An analysis of European Parliament elections across time by Hix, Simon, Marsh, Michael

“…After seven waves of European Parliament elections and European Union enlargement to 27 states, the time is ripe to analyse the temporal robustness of the…”
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Ballot structure, list flexibility and policy representation by Däubler, Thomas, Hix, Simon

“…There is a growing body of research on the impact of the electoral system 'ballot structure' on the behaviour of politicians. We offer a clear, ordinal and…”
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