Frank M. Häge

Frank M. Häge

Political Scientist

University of Limerick

I am a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Limerick.

In my research, I study the involvement and interactions of politicians and bureaucrats in legislative decision-making as well as their relative influence on policy processes and outcomes, mainly in the context of the European Union. I am also interested in classic political science questions about the historical development of political parties, electoral competition, and democratic institutions more broadly.

This site provides information about my research and publications. It also provides access to data sets and other research outputs I have collected.

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Interests
  • Legislative Politics
  • European Union Politics
  • Historical Political Economy
Education

  • PhD, 2008

    Leiden University

  • Master of Public Policy and Management, 2003

    University of Konstanz

Research

Policy-making leadership in the European Parliament
In this collaborative project, Nils Ringe (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and I investigate the selection of parliamentarians into policy-making leadership positions in the European Parliament, the resulting collaborative relationships, and their consequences for the process and output of policy-making.
Policy-making leadership in the European Parliament
Decision-making in the Council of the European Union
This strand of research looks at various aspects of decision-making within in the Council of the European Union, including the measurement of actor preferences, their powers with respect to agenda-setting and bargaining, and the production of particular procedural outcomes, such as consensual decisions.
Decision-making in the Council of the European Union
Bureaucratic Politics in the Council of the European Union
Beginning with my PhD dissertation, several of my studies examine the role played by diplomats and other national officials in shaping the process and outcome of decision-making in the Council of the European Union. Collectively, they help to improve our understanding of the internal decision-making process of the Council, which has long been seen as a ‘black box’.
Bureaucratic Politics in the Council of the European Union
Democratisation and De-Democratisation in Imperial Germany
This project examines the economic and political factors that influenced the initial constitutional design of the German Empire and subsequent attempts to reform the regime into a more democratic or autocratic direction. Taking into account both long-term developments in economic structures and ideological beliefs, as well as short-term actor constellations within a particular institutional context, the project takes a novel approach for understanding historical regime change trajectories.
Democratisation and De-Democratisation in Imperial Germany
The origins of political parties and conflict structures in Germany
This project examines the classic question of why political parties formed and how they shaped political conflict structures, combining historical information about roll call votes in the German Reichstag with political and socio-economic data about constituency characteristics of parliamentarians from 1867 to 1918.
The origins of political parties and conflict structures in Germany
Historical German Election Manifestos
Election manifestos are one of the primary sources of information for measuring the positions of political parties. In this data collection project, I collect and digitize historical election appeals of German political parties, as published in newspapers at the time, from 1867 to 1933. The temporal scope of this document corpus enables new research on the origins and long-term development of political parties and political conflict structures.
Historical German Election Manifestos

Data

Council Meetings Dataset
This dataset provides the date, duration, and policy coding of more than 70,000 meetings of Council working parties, committees and ministerial formations in the Council of the European Union, covering all areas of its policy activities between 1995 and 2014. It also documents the birth, merger, split, succession, or death of working parties and committees, providing novel insights about changes in the organisational structure of the Council over time.
Last updated on 4 Aug 2022
Project Article Data
Council Meetings Dataset
Chance-Corrected Measures of Foreign Policy Similarity (FPSIM Version 2) Data
The FPSIM (version 2) dataset provides measures of foreign policy similarity of dyads based on alliance ties (Correlates of War, version 4.1) and UN General Assembly voting (Voeten, version 17) for all members of the international system (Correlates of War system membership list, version 5.0). The alliance data cover the time period from 1816 to 2012, and the UN voting data from 1946 to 2015.
Last updated on 4 Aug 2022
Article Data
Chance-Corrected Measures of Foreign Policy Similarity (FPSIM Version 2) Data
European Union Policy-Making (EUPOL Version 5) Dataset
The EUPOL (Version 5) dataset includes virtually all information contained in the European Commission’s online database PreLex. The mission of PreLex was to monitor the inter-institutional decision-making process of the EU, providing information about various formal events and institutional actors involved in policy-making, as well as cross-references to documents contained in other online databases. In combination with its long-term coverage, starting in the mid 1970s, PreLex is a useful source of information for studies of long-term developments in EU politics and European integration.
Last updated on 4 Aug 2022
Article Data
European Union Policy-Making (EUPOL Version 5) Dataset

Publications

The Presidency of the Council of the European Union

The Presidency of the Council is one of the most important leadership positions in the institutional setup of the European Union (EU). …

Frank M. Häge
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The Presidency of the Council of the European Union
Allocating political attention in the EU’s foreign and security policy: The effect of supranational agenda-setters
Supranational bureaucracies are often promoted as a solution to collective action problems. In the European Union context, investing …
Frank M. Häge
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Allocating political attention in the EU’s foreign and security policy: The effect of supranational agenda-setters
Top-down or bottom-up? The selection of shadow rapporteurs in the European Parliament
Shadow rapporteurs play an important role in developing the European Parliament’s collective policy positions and in defending them in …
Frank M. Häge, Nils Ringe
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Top-down or bottom-up? The selection of shadow rapporteurs in the European Parliament
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Contact

  • frankhaege@ul.ie
  • +353-61-234897
  • Department of Politics and Public Administration
    University of Limerick
    Limerick, V94 T9PX
    Ireland
  • Foundation Building, Room F1-019