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

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