Stein Rokkan Chair in Comparative Politics, EUI. President-Elect, @epssnet.bsky.social. FBA, FRSA. Democracy, parties, elections, electoral systems etc. Live music. COYI
Simon Hix is a British political scientist, holder of the Stein Rokkan chair in comparative politics at the European University Institute in Florence. His main areas of research are voting in parliaments, democratic institutions, and EU politics. .. more
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Others care more about getting a publication based on saying that others are wrong rather than engaging in a discussion about what the current state of knowledge is and whether it needs to be corrected.
Reposted by Simon Hix, Will Jennings
Others care more about getting a publication based on saying that others are wrong rather than engaging in a discussion about what the current state of knowledge is and whether it needs to be corrected.
Our response is under review (see below on process) but we feel obliged to share our draft for balance since the comment has been released without the response.
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Reposted by Simon Hix, Brendan Nyhan, Alexander Wuttke , and 1 more Simon Hix, Brendan Nyhan, Alexander Wuttke, Marta Kołczyńska
I document seemingly idiosyncratic and ad hoc choices made by the authors that create a pattern of statistically significant results consistent with their theory.
Mathematicians/biologists/physicists: It is already helping us do frontier technical research and in some cases solve open problems arxiv.org/pdf/2511.16072
(There are of course, as always, many caveats, but the paper is genuinely remarkable)
@ispp-pops.bsky.social
Reposted by Diane Coyle, Simon Hix, Elizabeth Saunders , and 21 more Diane Coyle, Simon Hix, Elizabeth Saunders, Stephen P. Jenkins, Steven Van de Walle, Samuel L. Perry, Stefanie Walter, Alexander Wuttke, Justin H. Kirkland, Robert Huber, Jason Reifler, Benjamin Braun, Valerie Mueller, Ingo Rohlfing, Robert C. Richards, Christian Breunig, Thomas M. Meyer, Nazita Lajevardi, Federica Genovese, Tom Louwerse, Alexandra Cirone, Nicolai von Ondarza, Francesco Nicoli, Roman Senninger
We’re hiring a tenure-track assistant professor - any area of empirical political science - to join our wonderful Government Dept @lsegovernment.bsky.social
Any questions, please reach out to me
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Reposted by Simon Hix, Mark Priestley
No woman or girl should have to live in fear.
On International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, we call for an end to all forms of violence and affirm the right for every women to live in safety and dignity.
The Politics of Imperial Nostalgia - https://cup.org/4p1QbRA
"right-wing opposition to criticism of the imperial past is stronger than left-wing support"
- Christopher Claassen & @danjdevine.bsky.social
#OpenAccess
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Thanks to all the fantastic people giving feedback and supporting us
Reposted by Simon Hix, Ben H. Ansell, Jan Rath , and 11 more Simon Hix, Ben H. Ansell, Jan Rath, Catherine E. De Vries, Gregory B. Lee, Fabián Muniesa, Peter Holmes, Ben Worthy, Tom van der Meer, Jens Rydgren, Simon Usherwood, Stuart J. Turnbull‐Dugarte, Oliver Nachtwey, Dionyssis G. Dimitrakopoulos
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… it’s almost like they a deliberately ignoring political science research in their dash to oblivion 🤦♂️
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When my daughter was tiny and we played that album over and over, she once asked: “Daddy, why does he want to be a dog?”. Since then I’ve never been able to hear it differently!