Madeleine O Hosli
Biographic Data
| ID | 4075266 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Madeleine O Hosli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Madeleine |
| FAMILY NAME | O Hosli |
| SIGNATURE | HOSLI M O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leiden University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9569-1841 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 349 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Dynamics of Co-Sponsorship across Member Categories in the United Nations Security Council 2009 to 2023
Coalition formation in international organizations plays a crucial role in global governance. Our article uses new data on the (co-)sponsorship of United Nations Security Council ( unsc ) resolutions, classified into member categories, offering fresh insights into the operations of this core institution in the pursuit of global peace and security. Analyzing draft resolution sponsorship to map behaviors and alignments within the Security Council f…
Federalization, de-federalization and resilience
This paper examines the political-economic drivers of federalization and de-federalization, focusing on how historical and institutional factors influence multilevel governance. By comparing the European Union (EU), Switzerland, and the Italian Autonomous Region of Trentino-Alto Adige (TAA), we analyze how multilingual systems manage policy competences across different government levels, especially during crises. Despite differences in size and c…
Establishment of the European Stability Mechanism for the Eurozone
We explore intergovernmental dynamics that led to the establishment of the European Stability Mechanism ( esm ) as an important institutionalized response to the Eurozone crisis. Using Liberal Intergovernmentalism ( il ) as a theoretical lens, we formulate expectations that are then explored based on documents, media reports and literature on the various negotiation phases. We demonstrate how the esm was set up as a Eurozone agreement and how pre…
A political-economic analysis of Swiss referendums 1848 to 2022
This paper explores the evolution of voter turnout, acceptance rates, and the double majority requirement in Swiss national referendums from 1848 to 2022. Given the extensive time frame, the study highlights key developments such as the expansion of voting rights for women, the lowering of the voting age to 18, the varying population growth across cantons (the electoral districts relevant for the double majority), and the evolving costs associate…
Vote choices in the Council of the European Union 2010 to 2021
A Dyadic Method to Investigate Voting Behavior in the Council of the European Union
s Using a dyadic approach to explore voting behavior of European Union (EU) member states in the Council of the EU, we investigate the similarity in voting behavior of governments on three policy dimensions: left-right, authoritarian-libertarian, and pro-/anti EU. These policy dimensions are of interest also in other contexts, such as decision-making in international or regional organizations other than the EU. Our dependent variable is based on …
The European Union in the annual United Nations General Assembly Debates
Security and Global Affairs
The Global, Regional and Local Politics of Institutional Responses to Covid-19
Turnout in European parliament elections 1979–2019
The European Parliament (EP) has seen a gradual increase in its powers since the introduction of direct elections in 1979. Scholars have focused on both individual-level and aggregate factors to explain turnout rates in EP elections over time, including increased levels of EU politicization and the rise in support for Eurosceptic parties. However, one strand of analysis seems to partially have been overlooked: Some earlier research on EP election…
The Changing Global Order
Avoiding Paralysis
Why does the Council of the European Union continue to function without apparent problems, despite the increase in the number and heterogeneity of its members brought about by the Eastern enlargement? We argue that the reason why the Council has not become paralysed lies in the increased delegation of its agenda load from the ministerial meetings downwards to the Committee of Permanent Representatives (Coreper). We assess our argument on the basi…
The Bureaucratisation of Decision-Making in the European Union after Eastern Enlargement
This article seeks to describe some important changes that have occurred in EU decision-making procedures since its eastern enlargement and to explain how it is that the decision-making process continues to function relatively smoothly in the EU even after a sharp increase in the number of Member States and despite generally shared fears to the contrary. The analysis focuses on the main decision-making body in the EU, the Council of the European …
Pre- and Post-Lisbon
This paper focuses on effects of the Lisbon Treaty on the coherence of EU behaviour at the UN General Assembly (UNGA). It theorises the EU's presence at the UNGA in terms of a principal–agent model wherein the EU and its entire membership are considered to constitute a collective principal while the actors playing the role of the agent have varied in different phases. It then investigates, in the light of this framework, the voting cohesion of EU…
Introduction
Coalition formation on major policy dimensions
Using data of contested decisions in the Council of the European Union, combined with data on the position of member states on the left-right and support for European integration dimensions, this paper provides an overview of winning coalitions formed in the council in the 1998 to 2004 time span. It shows distance between the combined policy positions of winning coalitions to individual EU states within these coalitions and demonstrates that most…
Voting in the Council of the European Union after the 2004 Enlargement
This article explores voting patterns in the Council of the European Union between May 2004 and the end of December 2006, studying the full set of voting records for this institution. It analyses government vote choices in the Council on the basis of ordered logistic regression analysis, explaining the propensity of European Union (EU) Member States to vote 'yes', abstain from voting or vote 'no'. The article explains voting behaviour in the Coun…
The Importance of Actor Cleavages in Negotiating the European Constitution
This paper aims to explore government preferences and cleavages in the bargaining process on the European Constitution, across the range of 25 EU member states. The study focuses on preferences concerning socioeconomic policymaking and explores whether divisions can be discerned between preferences held by actors according to locations on the left-right policy scale, actors in older as compared to newer EU states, net EU budget positions, domesti…
National Representation in International Organizations
What determines the allocation of voting weights to member states in international organizations? What drives the seat and voting weight allocation in the European Parliament (EP) and in the Council of the European Union (EU)? Our objective in this article is to develop a universal logical model and to demonstrate that the resulting equation indeed captures negotiated outcomes on seat and voting weight allocations in EU institutions from their be…
Who Has Power in the EU? The Commission, Council and Parliament in Legislative Decision‐making
What is the relative power of the European Commission, the Council of Ministers and the European Parliament (EP) in the European Union (EU)? Both scholars and practitioners of EU affairs provide different answers to this seemingly straightforward question. In this article, we examine the balance of power among these three actors in the context of legislative decision‐making. We report the results of a small survey among a select group of practiti…
Measuring National Delegate Positions at the Convention on the Future of Europe Using Computerized Word Scoring
The Convention on the Future of Europe that led to the eventual drafting of an EU Constitution involved numerous political actors from many countries. Their negotiations over the constitution generated a huge volume of texts containing substantive information about their preferences for EU institutional and political outcomes. In this paper, we attempt to measure these preferences at the national party level by analysing the Convention texts usin…
The Nice Treaty and Voting Rules in the Council
This response to Moberg (2002) demonstrates that some of his figures and calculations require more thorough analysis. His dismissal of the risk of inertia in the Council after enlargement, his measurement of blocking power of individual EU states and his figures on relative under‐ and over‐representation of EU states in the Council are disputed. The article pleads for a dialogue between academics and practitioners in order to avoid random outcome…
Brussels between Bern and Berlin
In the current debate on the future European order, the European Union (EU) is often described as an “emerging federation.” This article claims that federalism is not exclusively useful in deliberating about the future of the EU. Non‐statecentric conceptions of federalism provide a better understanding of the current structure and functioning of the European system of multilevel governance than most theories of European integration and internatio…
Which Decision Rule for the Future Council
Decisions in the Council of Ministers continue to be surrounded by secrecy as far as the details of the decision-making process are concerned. Most of the research on reform efforts has focused on increasing transparency and on facilitating the management of various auxiliary bodies of the Council. In addition, a central focus has been placed on re-weighting of votes among the member states. In this article we argue that the current method of fin…
The creation of the European economic and monetary union (EMU)
The European economic and monetary union (EMU) is widely viewed as one of the most important developments in recent European integration. But it is less clear why EMU was started at all, and, more specifically,what the role of individual European Community (EC) member states has been in this process. Most importantly, some puzzling questions arise when trying to establish why Germany favored EMU, and as to its relative importance in the intergove…
Power, Connected Coalitions, and Efficiency
This article is concerned with challenges to reforming the voting procedures of the Council of the European Union (EU). The next major waves of EU enlargement will cause the Union to increase to a membership of first twenty-one, and then twenty-six or possibly even more states. How does enlargement affect the Council's inherent “capacity to act” under the currently used qualified majority voting rule? It is demonstrated here that the expected inc…
Voting in the Council of the European Union after the 2004 Enlargement
This article explores voting patterns in the Council of the European Union between May 2004 and the end of December 2006, studying the full set of voting records for this institution. It analyses government vote choices in the Council on the basis of ordered logistic regression analysis, explaining the propensity of European Union (EU) Member States to vote 'yes', abstain from voting or vote 'no'. The article explains voting behaviour in the Coun…
Brussels between Bern and Berlin
In the current debate on the future European order, the European Union (EU) is often described as an “emerging federation.” This article claims that federalism is not exclusively useful in deliberating about the future of the EU. Non‐statecentric conceptions of federalism provide a better understanding of the current structure and functioning of the European system of multilevel governance than most theories of European integration and internatio…
Who Has Power in the EU? The Commission, Council and Parliament in Legislative Decision‐making
What is the relative power of the European Commission, the Council of Ministers and the European Parliament (EP) in the European Union (EU)? Both scholars and practitioners of EU affairs provide different answers to this seemingly straightforward question. In this article, we examine the balance of power among these three actors in the context of legislative decision‐making. We report the results of a small survey among a select group of practiti…
Admission of European Free Trade Association states to the European Community
Several member states of the European Free Trade Association have applied for admission into the European Community (EC). Paradoxically, enlarging the EC in this way will expand the voting power of Luxembourg, the smallest EC member state, in the EC Council of Ministers but diminish the power of the other states. In an EC with more members, voting by unanimity increasingly becomes an impractical decision-making procedure. As the Single European A…
Coallitions and Power
Measuring National Delegate Positions at the Convention on the Future of Europe Using Computerized Word Scoring
The Convention on the Future of Europe that led to the eventual drafting of an EU Constitution involved numerous political actors from many countries. Their negotiations over the constitution generated a huge volume of texts containing substantive information about their preferences for EU institutional and political outcomes. In this paper, we attempt to measure these preferences at the national party level by analysing the Convention texts usin…
The Balance between Small and Large
Journal Article The Balance Between Small and Large: Effects of a Double-Majority System on Voting Power in the European Union Get access Madeleine O. Hosli Madeleine O. Hosli European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA), Maastricht, Netherlands Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Quarterly, Volume 39, Issue 3, September 1995, Pages 351–370, https://doi.org/10.2307/2600925 Published…
Voting strength in the European Parliament
Most decisions by the European Parliament are taken by an absolute majority of its members. Some decisions however – such as the approval of the budget of the European Union – require a two‐thirds majority. The paper analyzes the a priori voting strength of the member states when their representatives vote coherently. It is shown that the increase in votes for Germany in the 1994 reallocation enhanced its position. A less favourable effect, howev…
The creation of the European economic and monetary union (EMU)
The European economic and monetary union (EMU) is widely viewed as one of the most important developments in recent European integration. But it is less clear why EMU was started at all, and, more specifically,what the role of individual European Community (EC) member states has been in this process. Most importantly, some puzzling questions arise when trying to establish why Germany favored EMU, and as to its relative importance in the intergove…
Power, Connected Coalitions, and Efficiency
This article is concerned with challenges to reforming the voting procedures of the Council of the European Union (EU). The next major waves of EU enlargement will cause the Union to increase to a membership of first twenty-one, and then twenty-six or possibly even more states. How does enlargement affect the Council's inherent “capacity to act” under the currently used qualified majority voting rule? It is demonstrated here that the expected inc…
Pre- and Post-Lisbon
This paper focuses on effects of the Lisbon Treaty on the coherence of EU behaviour at the UN General Assembly (UNGA). It theorises the EU's presence at the UNGA in terms of a principal–agent model wherein the EU and its entire membership are considered to constitute a collective principal while the actors playing the role of the agent have varied in different phases. It then investigates, in the light of this framework, the voting cohesion of EU…
The Nice Treaty and Voting Rules in the Council
This response to Moberg (2002) demonstrates that some of his figures and calculations require more thorough analysis. His dismissal of the risk of inertia in the Council after enlargement, his measurement of blocking power of individual EU states and his figures on relative under‐ and over‐representation of EU states in the Council are disputed. The article pleads for a dialogue between academics and practitioners in order to avoid random outcome…
Turnout in European parliament elections 1979–2019
The European Parliament (EP) has seen a gradual increase in its powers since the introduction of direct elections in 1979. Scholars have focused on both individual-level and aggregate factors to explain turnout rates in EP elections over time, including increased levels of EU politicization and the rise in support for Eurosceptic parties. However, one strand of analysis seems to partially have been overlooked: Some earlier research on EP election…
National Representation in International Organizations
What determines the allocation of voting weights to member states in international organizations? What drives the seat and voting weight allocation in the European Parliament (EP) and in the Council of the European Union (EU)? Our objective in this article is to develop a universal logical model and to demonstrate that the resulting equation indeed captures negotiated outcomes on seat and voting weight allocations in EU institutions from their be…
Avoiding Paralysis
Why does the Council of the European Union continue to function without apparent problems, despite the increase in the number and heterogeneity of its members brought about by the Eastern enlargement? We argue that the reason why the Council has not become paralysed lies in the increased delegation of its agenda load from the ministerial meetings downwards to the Committee of Permanent Representatives (Coreper). We assess our argument on the basi…
Coalition formation on major policy dimensions
Using data of contested decisions in the Council of the European Union, combined with data on the position of member states on the left-right and support for European integration dimensions, this paper provides an overview of winning coalitions formed in the council in the 1998 to 2004 time span. It shows distance between the combined policy positions of winning coalitions to individual EU states within these coalitions and demonstrates that most…
Introduction
The Importance of Actor Cleavages in Negotiating the European Constitution
This paper aims to explore government preferences and cleavages in the bargaining process on the European Constitution, across the range of 25 EU member states. The study focuses on preferences concerning socioeconomic policymaking and explores whether divisions can be discerned between preferences held by actors according to locations on the left-right policy scale, actors in older as compared to newer EU states, net EU budget positions, domesti…
Which Decision Rule for the Future Council
Decisions in the Council of Ministers continue to be surrounded by secrecy as far as the details of the decision-making process are concerned. Most of the research on reform efforts has focused on increasing transparency and on facilitating the management of various auxiliary bodies of the Council. In addition, a central focus has been placed on re-weighting of votes among the member states. In this article we argue that the current method of fin…
A Dyadic Method to Investigate Voting Behavior in the Council of the European Union
s Using a dyadic approach to explore voting behavior of European Union (EU) member states in the Council of the EU, we investigate the similarity in voting behavior of governments on three policy dimensions: left-right, authoritarian-libertarian, and pro-/anti EU. These policy dimensions are of interest also in other contexts, such as decision-making in international or regional organizations other than the EU. Our dependent variable is based on …
The Bureaucratisation of Decision-Making in the European Union after Eastern Enlargement
This article seeks to describe some important changes that have occurred in EU decision-making procedures since its eastern enlargement and to explain how it is that the decision-making process continues to function relatively smoothly in the EU even after a sharp increase in the number of Member States and despite generally shared fears to the contrary. The analysis focuses on the main decision-making body in the EU, the Council of the European …
Admission of European Free Trade Association states to the European Community
Several member states of the European Free Trade Association have applied for admission into the European Community (EC). Paradoxically, enlarging the EC in this way will expand the voting power of Luxembourg, the smallest EC member state, in the EC Council of Ministers but diminish the power of the other states. In an EC with more members, voting by unanimity increasingly becomes an impractical decision-making procedure. As the Single European A…
The Balance between Small and Large
Journal Article The Balance Between Small and Large: Effects of a Double-Majority System on Voting Power in the European Union Get access Madeleine O. Hosli Madeleine O. Hosli European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA), Maastricht, Netherlands Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Quarterly, Volume 39, Issue 3, September 1995, Pages 351–370, https://doi.org/10.2307/2600925 Published…
Coallitions and Power
Voting strength in the European Parliament
Voting strength in the European Parliament
Most decisions by the European Parliament are taken by an absolute majority of its members. Some decisions however – such as the approval of the budget of the European Union – require a two‐thirds majority. The paper analyzes the a priori voting strength of the member states when their representatives vote coherently. It is shown that the increase in votes for Germany in the 1994 reallocation enhanced its position. A less favourable effect, howev…
Power, Connected Coalitions, and Efficiency
This article is concerned with challenges to reforming the voting procedures of the Council of the European Union (EU). The next major waves of EU enlargement will cause the Union to increase to a membership of first twenty-one, and then twenty-six or possibly even more states. How does enlargement affect the Council's inherent “capacity to act” under the currently used qualified majority voting rule? It is demonstrated here that the expected inc…
The creation of the European economic and monetary union (EMU)
The European economic and monetary union (EMU) is widely viewed as one of the most important developments in recent European integration. But it is less clear why EMU was started at all, and, more specifically,what the role of individual European Community (EC) member states has been in this process. Most importantly, some puzzling questions arise when trying to establish why Germany favored EMU, and as to its relative importance in the intergove…
Brussels between Bern and Berlin
In the current debate on the future European order, the European Union (EU) is often described as an “emerging federation.” This article claims that federalism is not exclusively useful in deliberating about the future of the EU. Non‐statecentric conceptions of federalism provide a better understanding of the current structure and functioning of the European system of multilevel governance than most theories of European integration and internatio…
Which Decision Rule for the Future Council
Decisions in the Council of Ministers continue to be surrounded by secrecy as far as the details of the decision-making process are concerned. Most of the research on reform efforts has focused on increasing transparency and on facilitating the management of various auxiliary bodies of the Council. In addition, a central focus has been placed on re-weighting of votes among the member states. In this article we argue that the current method of fin…
The Nice Treaty and Voting Rules in the Council
This response to Moberg (2002) demonstrates that some of his figures and calculations require more thorough analysis. His dismissal of the risk of inertia in the Council after enlargement, his measurement of blocking power of individual EU states and his figures on relative under‐ and over‐representation of EU states in the Council are disputed. The article pleads for a dialogue between academics and practitioners in order to avoid random outcome…
Measuring National Delegate Positions at the Convention on the Future of Europe Using Computerized Word Scoring
The Convention on the Future of Europe that led to the eventual drafting of an EU Constitution involved numerous political actors from many countries. Their negotiations over the constitution generated a huge volume of texts containing substantive information about their preferences for EU institutional and political outcomes. In this paper, we attempt to measure these preferences at the national party level by analysing the Convention texts usin…
National Representation in International Organizations
What determines the allocation of voting weights to member states in international organizations? What drives the seat and voting weight allocation in the European Parliament (EP) and in the Council of the European Union (EU)? Our objective in this article is to develop a universal logical model and to demonstrate that the resulting equation indeed captures negotiated outcomes on seat and voting weight allocations in EU institutions from their be…
Who Has Power in the EU? The Commission, Council and Parliament in Legislative Decision‐making
What is the relative power of the European Commission, the Council of Ministers and the European Parliament (EP) in the European Union (EU)? Both scholars and practitioners of EU affairs provide different answers to this seemingly straightforward question. In this article, we examine the balance of power among these three actors in the context of legislative decision‐making. We report the results of a small survey among a select group of practiti…
The Importance of Actor Cleavages in Negotiating the European Constitution
This paper aims to explore government preferences and cleavages in the bargaining process on the European Constitution, across the range of 25 EU member states. The study focuses on preferences concerning socioeconomic policymaking and explores whether divisions can be discerned between preferences held by actors according to locations on the left-right policy scale, actors in older as compared to newer EU states, net EU budget positions, domesti…
Voting in the Council of the European Union after the 2004 Enlargement
This article explores voting patterns in the Council of the European Union between May 2004 and the end of December 2006, studying the full set of voting records for this institution. It analyses government vote choices in the Council on the basis of ordered logistic regression analysis, explaining the propensity of European Union (EU) Member States to vote 'yes', abstain from voting or vote 'no'. The article explains voting behaviour in the Coun…
Coalition formation on major policy dimensions
Using data of contested decisions in the Council of the European Union, combined with data on the position of member states on the left-right and support for European integration dimensions, this paper provides an overview of winning coalitions formed in the council in the 1998 to 2004 time span. It shows distance between the combined policy positions of winning coalitions to individual EU states within these coalitions and demonstrates that most…
Pre- and Post-Lisbon
This paper focuses on effects of the Lisbon Treaty on the coherence of EU behaviour at the UN General Assembly (UNGA). It theorises the EU's presence at the UNGA in terms of a principal–agent model wherein the EU and its entire membership are considered to constitute a collective principal while the actors playing the role of the agent have varied in different phases. It then investigates, in the light of this framework, the voting cohesion of EU…
Introduction
Avoiding Paralysis
Why does the Council of the European Union continue to function without apparent problems, despite the increase in the number and heterogeneity of its members brought about by the Eastern enlargement? We argue that the reason why the Council has not become paralysed lies in the increased delegation of its agenda load from the ministerial meetings downwards to the Committee of Permanent Representatives (Coreper). We assess our argument on the basi…
The Bureaucratisation of Decision-Making in the European Union after Eastern Enlargement
This article seeks to describe some important changes that have occurred in EU decision-making procedures since its eastern enlargement and to explain how it is that the decision-making process continues to function relatively smoothly in the EU even after a sharp increase in the number of Member States and despite generally shared fears to the contrary. The analysis focuses on the main decision-making body in the EU, the Council of the European …
The Changing Global Order
The Global, Regional and Local Politics of Institutional Responses to Covid-19
Turnout in European parliament elections 1979–2019
The European Parliament (EP) has seen a gradual increase in its powers since the introduction of direct elections in 1979. Scholars have focused on both individual-level and aggregate factors to explain turnout rates in EP elections over time, including increased levels of EU politicization and the rise in support for Eurosceptic parties. However, one strand of analysis seems to partially have been overlooked: Some earlier research on EP election…
Establishment of the European Stability Mechanism for the Eurozone
We explore intergovernmental dynamics that led to the establishment of the European Stability Mechanism ( esm ) as an important institutionalized response to the Eurozone crisis. Using Liberal Intergovernmentalism ( il ) as a theoretical lens, we formulate expectations that are then explored based on documents, media reports and literature on the various negotiation phases. We demonstrate how the esm was set up as a Eurozone agreement and how pre…
A political-economic analysis of Swiss referendums 1848 to 2022
This paper explores the evolution of voter turnout, acceptance rates, and the double majority requirement in Swiss national referendums from 1848 to 2022. Given the extensive time frame, the study highlights key developments such as the expansion of voting rights for women, the lowering of the voting age to 18, the varying population growth across cantons (the electoral districts relevant for the double majority), and the evolving costs associate…
Political science (25 works) · Law (24 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (23 works) · Law (23 works) · European union (21 works) · Economics (20 works) · Politics (17 works) · Voting (15 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (13 works) · International trade (13 works)