Professor Dermot Hodson

Positions held:

Professor of Political Economy, Department of Politics

Email

Birkbeck: d.hodson@bbk.ac.uk

Overview
Overview

Biography

I am Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Politics at Birkbeck. I previously worked as an economist at the European Commission’s DG for Economic and Financial Affairs. I have taught at the LSE and held visiting positions at the College of Europe in Natolin, the University of Agder in Kristiansand and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I am Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Bruges.
I have published extensively in leading peer-reviewed journals in my field and my books include Governing the Euro Area in Good Times and Bad (Oxford University Press, 2011), The New Intergovernmentalism: States and Supranational Actors in the Post-Maastricht Era (with Chris Bickerton and Uwe Puetter, Oxford University Press, 2015), the Transformation of EU Treaty Making: The Rise of Parliaments, Referendums and Courts Since 1950 (with Imelda Maher, Cambridge University Press, 2019), The Institutions of the European Union, 5th Edition (with Uwe Puetter and Sabine Saurugger, Oxford University Press, 2022) and Circle of Stars: A History of the European Union (Yale University Press, 2023).

Qualifications
- PhD in European Political Economy, London School of Economics, 2005
- MA in European Economic Studies, College of Europe, Bruges, 1999
- BA in Economics and Philosophy, Trinity College Dublin, 1998
Professional memberships
- I am Co-Chair of the European Integration and Global Political Economy Network of the Council for European Studies.
- I serve as Series Editor for Oxford University Press's New European Union Series and I a member of the Editorial Boards of the Journal for European Public Policy and Agenda Publishing's Comparative Political Economy Series.
Research
Research

Research interests
- European integration
- FinTech and the Digital Single Market
- International Political Economy and Comparative Political Economy
Research overview

The primary focus of my research is the changing dynamics of European integration and governance. My recent work looks at EU economic governance, FinTech and the political economy of pan-European public financial institutions.

Research Centres and Institutes
- Board Member, Centre for the Study of British Politics and Public Life
- Board Member, Centre for Political Economy and Institutional Studies
Research projects

Bilateral ESRC/FNR: Banking on Europe.

Abstract

This three-year project will fund four UK and Luxembourg-based researchers with the aim of generating new knowledge among academics and policymakers about the evolution and accountability of pan-European public financial institutions. Institutions with the authority to raise funds on financial markets to provide grants, loans or guarantees were present at the outset of the European Communities and part of European responses to the economic crises of the 1970s, the reuniting of Europe in the 1990s and the euro crisis in the 2010s. They are now pivotal to the EU’s COVID-19 response, as in the Commission’s plan to borrow up to €750 billion under the Next Generation EU instrument to help with the costs of the pandemic. As pan-European public financial institutions grow in importance, they face calls for greater accountability to governments, parliaments and NGOs. And yet, there is limited political science research on either the evolution or accountability of these bodies.
This project will refine and develop a novel theoretical account of pan-European public financial institutions based on new intergovernmentalism, which we will test against other contemporary theories of European integration through archival research, elite interviews, process tracing, meta-synthesis and a mixed method study of accountability practices. Our findings will generate new knowledge on: (1) the evolution and accountability of pan-European public financial institutions since 1950; (2) who is driving these developments and what this means for accountability; and (3) how accountable these bodies are in practice and how their accountability can be strengthened. Through articles, a monograph and presentations, this project will shape debates among scholars of European integration and International Political Economy. Through working papers, policy briefs and workshops, we will engage practitioners in knowledge exchange. Our findings will encourage governments, parliaments, NGOs and pan-European public financial institutions to explore new accountability practices. The project fosters collaboration on a topic of importance for the UK and Luxembourg, which are home to key pan-European public financial institutions.

Funded by
Economic and Social Research Council

Funding amount
£505,248.00

Funder ID code
ES/W000733/1

Funding type
Research Grant
Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching

Supervision

Supervisions external to Birkbeck:

1

Supervisions within Birkbeck:

4

I welcome enquiries from prospective PhD students who are interested in undertaking research in any of my areas of research interest.

Current doctoral researchers
- ELLIS WIGGINS
  
  Nature of supervision:
  Principal Supervisor, Oct 2022 onwards
Doctoral alumni since 2013-14
- MARCO SCIPIONI
  
  Nature of supervision:
  Principal Supervisor, Oct 2010 to Sep 2015
  
  Awarded:
  2015
- GARETH BARRETT
  
  Nature of supervision:
  Principal Supervisor
  
  Title of thesis:
  Groups, governance and the development of UK alcohol policy: An Adversarial Policy Communities Approach
  
  Awarded:
  2020
- ABBY SEMPLE
  
  Nature of supervision:
  Principal Supervisor, Oct 2013
  
  Title of thesis:
  Reform of EU Public Procurement Law: Intergovernmental or Supranational Policy-making?
  
  Awarded:
  2019
Teaching

I teach on a broad range of modules, including:
Perspectives on Political Economy (Birkbeck)
EU Governance and Integration: Common Policies, Institutions, Eurozone, (Digital) Single Market, Globalisation, EU Crises (College of Europe)
Publications
Publications
Article
- Hodson, Dermot and Maher, I. (2023) Single issue EU referendums: tying hands, domestic effects and the challenge of consentification. Journal of European Public Policy 30 (5), pp. 948-966. ISSN 1350-1763.
- Hodson, Dermot (2021) The politics of FinTech: technology, regulation and disruption in UK and German retail banking. Public Administration 99 (4), pp. 859-872. ISSN 1467-9299.
- Hodson, Dermot (2021) The politics of documentary photography: three theoretical perspectives. Government and Opposition 56 (1), pp. 20-38. ISSN 0017-257X.
- Hodson, Dermot (2021) The visual politics and policy of Donald Trump. Policy Studies 42 (5-6), ISSN 0144-2872.
- Breen, M. and Hodson, Dermot and Moschella, M. (2020) Incoherence in regime complexes: a sentiment analysis of EU-IMF surveillance. Journal of Common Market Studies 58 (2), pp. 419-437. ISSN 0021-9886.
- Hodson, Dermot (2020) EMU and political union revisited: what we learnt from the euro’s second decade. Journal of European Integration 42 (3), pp. 295-310. ISSN 0703-6337.
- Hodson, Dermot and Maher, I. (2019) The necessary complexity of consent: rules and norms in EU treaty making. Cambridge Yearbook of European Legal Studies 21, pp. 297-317. ISSN 1528-8870.
- Hodson, Dermot and Puetter, U. (2019) The European Union in disequilibrium: new intergovernmentalism, postfunctionalism and integration theory in the post-Maastricht period. Journal of European Public Policy 26 (8), pp. 1153-1171. ISSN 1350-1763.
- Hodson, Dermot (2018) The macroeconomic imbalance procedure as European integration: a legalisation perspective. Journal of European Public Policy 25 (11), pp. 1610-1628. ISSN 1350-1763.
- Hodson, Dermot (2017) Eurozone Governance in 2016: The Italian Banking Crisis, Fiscal Flexibility and Brexit (Plus Plus Plus). JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies 55 (S1), pp. 118-132. ISSN 0021-9886.
- Hodson, Dermot and Puetter, U. (2017) Studying Europe after the fall: four thoughts on post-EU studies. Journal of European Public Policy 25 (3), pp. 465-474. ISSN 1350-1763.
- Hodson, Dermot (2016) Eurozone governance: from the Greek drama of 2015 to the Five Presidents’ Report. Journal of Common Market Studies 54 (S1), pp. 150-166. ISSN 0021-9886.
- Bickerton, C.J. and Hodson, Dermot and Puetter, U. (2015) The new intergovernmentalism: European integration in the post-Maastricht era. Journal of Common Market Studies 53 (4), pp. 703-722. ISSN 0021-9886.
- Hodson, Dermot (2015) The IMF as a de facto institution of the EU: a multiple supervisor approach. Review of International Political Economy 22 (3), pp. 570-598. ISSN 0969-2290.
- Hodson, Dermot (2014) Eurozone governance: recovery, reticence and reform. Journal of Common Market Studies 52 (S1), pp. 186-201. ISSN 0021-9886.
- Hodson, Dermot (2013) The Eurozone in 2012: "Whatever It Takes to Preserve the Euro'?. Journal of Common Market Studies 51 (S1), pp. 183-200. ISSN 0021-9886.
- Hodson, Dermot (2013) Unhappy in their own way: comparing UK and Irish experiences of the Global Financial Crisis. British Politics Review 7 (1), pp. 12-13. ISSN 1890-4505.
- Hodson, Dermot (2013) The little engine that wouldn’t: supranational entrepreneurship and the Barroso Commission. Journal of European Integration 35 (3), pp. 301-314. ISSN 0703-6337.
- Hodson, Dermot and Maher, I. (2013) British brinkmanship and Gaelic games: EU treaty ratification in the UK and Ireland from a two level game perspective. The British Journal of Politics & International Relations ISSN 1467-856X.
- Hodson, Dermot (2012) The Eurozone in 2011. Journal of Common Market Studies 50 (s2), pp. 178-194. ISSN 1468-5965.
- Hodson, Dermot (2012) Why it looks like game over for the G20. Europe’s World 20, pp. 20-24.
- Hodson, Dermot (2011) The EU economy: the Eurozone in 2010. Journal of Common Market Studies 49 (1), pp. 231-249. ISSN 1468-5965.
- Hodson, Dermot (2010) The EU economy: the Euro Area in 2009. Journal of Common Market Studies 48 (S1), pp. 225-242. ISSN 0021-9886.
- Hodson, Dermot (2010) The Euro area in 2009. Journal of Common Market Studies 48 (1), pp. 225-242. ISSN 1468-5965.
- Hodson, Dermot (2009) Reforming EU economic governance: a view from (and on) the principal-agent approach. Comparative European Politics 7 (4), pp. 455-475. ISSN 1472-4790.
- Maher, I. and Billiet, S. and Hodson, Dermot (2009) The principal-agent approach to EU studies: apply liberally but handle with care. Comparative European Politics 7 (4), pp. 409-413. ISSN 1472-4790.
- Hodson, Dermot and Mabbett, Deborah (2009) UK economic policy and the global financial crisis: paradigm lost?. Journal of Common Market Studies 47 (5), pp. 1041-1061. ISSN 0021-9886.
- Hodson, Dermot and Quaglia, L. (2009) European perspectives on the global financial crisis: introduction. Journal of Common Market Studies 47 (5), pp. 939-953. ISSN 0021-9886.
- Hodson, Dermot (2009) EMU and political union: what, if anything, have we learned from the Euro's first decade?. Journal of European Public Policy 16 (4), pp. 508-526. ISSN 1350-1763.
- Deroose, S. and Hodson, Dermot and Kuhlmann, J. (2008) The broad economic policy guidelines: before and after the re-launch of the Lisbon Strategy. Journal of Common Market Studies 46 (4), pp. 827-848. ISSN 0021-9886.
- Hodson, Dermot and Deroose, S. and Kuhlmann, J. (2007) The legitimation of EMU: lessons from the early years of the euro. Review of International Political Economy 14 (5), pp. 800-819. ISSN 0969-2290.
- Hodson, Dermot (2004) Macroeconomic co-ordination in the euro area: the scope and limits of the open method. Journal of European Public Policy 11 (2), pp. 231-248. ISSN 1350-1763.
- Hodson, Dermot and Maher, I. (2004) Soft law and sanctions: economic policy co-ordination and reform of the stability and growth pact. Journal of European Public Policy 11 (5), pp. 798-813. ISSN 1350-1763.
- Begg, I. and Hodson, Dermot and Maher, I. (2003) Economic policy coordination in the European Union. National Institute Economic Review 183 (1), pp. 66-77. ISSN 0027-9501.
- Hodson, Dermot (2003) The exchange rate as an adjustment mechanism: a structural VAR approach to the case of Ireland. The Economic and Social Review 34 (2), pp. 151-172. ISSN 0012-9984.
- Hodson, Dermot and Maher, I. (2002) Economic and monetary union: balancing credibility and legitimacy in an asymmetric policy-mix. Journal of European Public Policy 9 (3), pp. 391-407. ISSN 1350-1763.
- Hodson, Dermot and Maher, I. (2001) The open method as a new mode of governance: the case of soft economic policy co-ordination. Journal of Common Market Studies 39 (4), pp. 719-746. ISSN 0021-9886.
- Begg, I. and Hodson, Dermot (1999) Regional adjustment mechanisms under EMU. Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie 91 (1), pp. 78-84. ISSN 1467-9663.
Book
- Hodson, Dermot and Puetter, U. and Saurugger, S. and Peterson, J., eds. (2021) The institutions of the European Union, 5th edition. New European Union Series. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198862222.
- Hodson, Dermot and Maher, Imelda (2018) The transformation of EU treaty making: the rise of parliaments, referendums and courts since 1950. Cambridge Studies in European Law and Policy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107112155.
- Hodson, Dermot and Peterson, J. (2017) The Institutions of the European Union, 4th edition. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198737414.
- Bickerton, C.J. and Hodson, Dermot and Puetter, P., eds. (2015) The new intergovernmentalism: states and supranational actors in the post-Maastricht era. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198703617.
- Hodson, Dermot (2011) Governing the Euro area in good times and bad. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199572502.
- Ardy, B. and Begg, I. and Hodson, Dermot and Maher, I. and Mayes, D., eds. (2006) Adjusting to EMU. One Europe or Several?. London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9780230554740.
Book Section
- Hodson, Dermot (2016) Jacques Delors: vision, revisionism, and the design of EMU. In: Kenneth, D. and Ivo, M. (eds.) Architects of the Euro: Intellectuals in the Making of European Monetary Union. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. pp. 212-232. ISBN 9780198735915.
- Hodson, Dermot and Puetter, U. (2013) The European Union and the economic crisis. In: Cini, M. and Pérez-Solórzano Borragán, N. (eds.) European Union Politics, 4th edition. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199694754.
- Hodson, Dermot (2012) The EMU paradox: between centralization and decentralization in EU macroeconomic policy. In: Richardson, J. (ed.) Constructing a Policy-Making State?: Policy Dynamics in the EU. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. pp. 170-188. ISBN 9780199604104.
- Hodson, Dermot (2012) EU regional and cohesion policy. In: Jones, E. and Menon, A. and Weatherill, S. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of the European Union. Oxford Handbooks in Politics & International Relations. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. pp. 496-507. ISBN 9780199546282.
- Hodson, Dermot (2012) Managing the Euro: the European Central Bank. In: Peterson, J. and Shackleton, M. (eds.) The Institutions of the European Union. The New European Union Series. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. pp. 199-218. ISBN 9780199574988.
- Hodson, Dermot (2010) Economic and monetary union. In: Wallace, H. and Pollack, M. and Young, A. (eds.) Policy-Making in the European Union (6th ed.). The New European Union Series. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. pp. 157-180. ISBN 9780199544820.
- Hodson, Dermot (2001) Social inclusion through social partnership: the case of Ireland. In: Mayes, D. and Berghman, J. and Salais, R. (eds.) Social Exclusion and European Policy. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. pp. 170-187. ISBN 9781840646887.
Business and community

Business and community

Outreach

My research has a strong policy focus and I have engaged extensively with EU and national policy-makers.
I have given evidence to the House of Lords EU Financial Affairs Sub-Committee on various aspects of my research and serve as an external consultant to the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
I am a member of the Irish Government’s Global Foreign Policy Network.

Professor Dermot Hodson

Overview

Biography

Qualifications

Professional memberships

Research

Research interests

Research overview

Research Centres and Institutes

Research projects

Bilateral ESRC/FNR: Banking on Europe.

Supervision and teaching

Supervision

Current doctoral researchers

ELLIS WIGGINS

Doctoral alumni since 2013-14

MARCO SCIPIONI

GARETH BARRETT

ABBY SEMPLE

Teaching

Publications

Article

Book

Book Section

Business and community

Outreach