Personal website: www.frankhaege.eu

Frank Häge, Dipl.-VerwWiss. (Konstanz), PhD (Leiden), is Lecturer in Politics in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at the University of Limerick. Prior to his appointment, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Leiden University. His research interests are in the areas of Legislative Politics, International Negotiations, and Research Methods. Substantively, his research focuses mainly on the European Union. He has published on legislative decision-making in the Council of the European Union, inter-institutional negotiations between the European Parliament and the Council, the application of fuzzy set methods in comparative case study research, the measurement of foreign policy similarity in quantitative studies of international relations, and the EU’s influence on the privatization of public utilities in member states. His dissertation on committee decision-making in the Council of the EU received prizes for best PhD thesis from the Dutch Political Science Association and the University Association for Contemporary European Studies, and has recently been published by Routledge. His other work appeared in a variety of peer-reviewed academic journals, including European Union Politics, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of European Public Policy, Political Analysis, and West European Politics.

Course Director:  MA in European Politics and Governance