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
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This week I spent 2 hours getting though passport control at JFK and then 1 hour at passport control at the Schengen Border (back in Florence). Feeling very unloved as a Brit!
Interesting list of classic World Cup shirts by the BBC. But can’t believe they’ve not listed Italy 1982, which was a legend!
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
Great piece by @tabouchadi.bsky.social. There’s a large pool of progressive voters (economically left and socially liberal) in many democracies that the mainstream centre-left are abandoning. Greens and other progressive parties can capture these voters.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
😢 so sad
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Labour imposes ban on working with Greens, forces Labour councillors to partner with Tories.
This is a bad survey question. It’s very difficult for people to distinguish recent changes in “flow” (eg. inflation or net migration) from historical changes in “stock” (eg. cost of living or number of migrants).
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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