Simon Hix
Simon Hix is Professor of European and Comparative Politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has written several books, including most recently What's Wrong With the European Union and How to Fix It (Polity, 2008). In 2008 he won the Fenno Prize from the American Political Science Association (APSA) for his book (with Abdul Noury and Gerard Roland) Democratic Politics in the European Parliament (Cambridge, 2007), in 2005 he won APSA’s Longley Prize for the best article in 2004 on representation and electoral systems, and in 2004 he won a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Award. Website
Michael Marsh
Michael Marsh is Professor of Comparative Political Behaviour and Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Trinity College Dublin. He has written and edited a number of books, the most recent of which, The Irish Voter (Manchester University Press, 2008) won the Political Studies Association of Ireland's best book of 2008 prize, and almost one hundred professional articles and book chapters on parties and elections. He served as a principal investigator for the Irish election study 2002-2007, and has been part of a team running pan-EU surveys in European Parliament elections since 1991. Website
Nick Vivyan
Nick Vivyan is a Doctoral Research Student in the Department of Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is a member of the Political Science and Political Economy research group at the LSE. His doctoral research, on voting behaviour in central banks, is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council of the UK. His research interests also include quantitative methods, particularly Bayesian data analysis.