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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). …

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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
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
The Presidency of the Council of the European Union

The Presidency plays a crucial role in the management and organization of the Council of the European Union’s work and the …

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Political conflict in Bismarck’s Germany: An analysis of parliamentary voting, 1867-1890
Imperial Germany is a prominent historical case in the study of Western Europe’s political development. This article investigates the …
Frank M. Häge
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Political conflict in Bismarck’s Germany: An analysis of parliamentary voting, 1867-1890
Rapporteur-shadow rapporteur networks in the European Parliament: The strength of small numbers
Specialisation and delegation of policy leadership within committees is the norm rather than the exception in legislatures around the …
Frank M. Häge, Nils Ringe
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Rapporteur-shadow rapporteur networks in the European Parliament: The strength of small numbers
The effect of codecision on Council decision-making: Informalization, politicization and power
Little is known about the effects of the inter-institutional linkages created through the establishment of the codecision procedure on …
Frank M. Häge, Daniel Naurin
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The effect of codecision on Council decision-making: Informalization, politicization and power
The scheduling power of the EU Council Presidency
Does the Presidency of the Council of the European Union have the ability to direct the political attention of this body by emphasizing …
Frank M. Häge
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The scheduling power of the EU Council Presidency
Data on political attention in the Council illustrates the EU’s failure to proactively address major crises
When government ministers meet in the Council of the European Union, what determines the level of attention they direct toward …
Frank M. Häge
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Data on political attention in the Council illustrates the EU’s failure to proactively address major crises
Political attention in the Council of the European Union: A new dataset of working party meetings, 1995-2014
Little firm knowledge exists about the allocation of the Council’s political attention across policy areas and over time. This …
Frank M. Häge
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Political attention in the Council of the European Union: A new dataset of working party meetings, 1995-2014
Consensus decisions and similarity measures in international organisations
Voting behavior in international organizations, most notably in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), is often used to infer the …
Frank M. Häge, Simon Hug
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Consensus decisions and similarity measures in international organisations
Bargaining power in informal decision-making in the Council of the European Union
Negotiations in the Council of the European Union take place in an environment that is relatively unstructured by formal rules and …
Frank M. Häge
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Bargaining power in informal decision-making in the Council of the European Union
Scaling Policy Preferences from Negotiation Position Networks in the Council of the European Union
Normative evaluations and positive studies of legislative politics often require information about actors’ policy positions. This study …
Frank M. Häge
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Scaling Policy Preferences from Negotiation Position Networks in the Council of the European Union
The Lisbon Treaty’s change to Council voting rules will have important implications for the democratic legitimacy of the EU
Many of the decisions made in the Council of the European Union are based on qualified majority voting, in which EU legislation can be …
Frank M. Häge
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The Lisbon Treaty’s change to Council voting rules will have important implications for the democratic legitimacy of the EU
Coalition Building and Consensus in the Council of the European Union
Although qualified-majority voting is possible, member states in the Council of the European Union (EU) still adopt most policies by …
Frank M. Häge
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Coalition Building and Consensus in the Council of the European Union
Decisions made by consensus in the Council of the European Union emerge from the coalition-building behaviour of individual governments.
Despite the use of qualified majority voting, a high percentage of decisions in the Council of the European Union are still made by …
Frank M. Häge
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Decisions made by consensus in the Council of the European Union emerge from the coalition-building behaviour of individual governments.
The effect of codecision on Council decision-making: informalization, politicization and power
Little is known about the effects of the inter-institutional linkages created through the establishment of the codecision procedure on …
Frank M. Häge, Daniel Naurin
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The effect of codecision on Council decision-making: informalization, politicization and power
The Efficiency of Legislative Decision-Making in the Council of the EU before and after Lisbon
One of the explicit goals of the Lisbon Treaty was to enhance the ‘efficiency and democratic legitimacy of the Union’. To increase the …
Frank M. Häge
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The Efficiency of Legislative Decision-Making in the Council of the EU before and after Lisbon
Bureaucrats as Law-Makers: Committee Decision-Making in the EU Council of Ministers

The Council of Ministers is one of the most powerful institutions of the European Union (EU) and plays a major role in the European …

Frank M. Häge
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Bureaucrats as Law-Makers: Committee Decision-Making in the EU Council of Ministers
The Duration of Multilateral Negotiations in the Council of the European Union
Most existing formal theories of group choice focus on predicting the outcome of decisionmaking. However, the duration of …
Frank M. Häge
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The Duration of Multilateral Negotiations in the Council of the European Union
Book review of 'The European Parliament' by Richard Corbett, Francis Jacobs, and Michael Shackleton, London: John Harper, 2011

Now in its eighth edition, this seminal work on the organisation, working methods, and powers of the European Parliament (EP) is fully …

Frank M. Häge
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Book review of 'The European Parliament' by Richard Corbett, Francis Jacobs, and Michael Shackleton, London: John Harper, 2011
The European Union Policy-Making Dataset
This article introduces the European Union Policy - Making (EUPOL) dataset. The dataset contains the complete records of the European …
Frank M. Häge
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The European Union Policy-Making Dataset
Politicising Council decision-making: The effect of European Parliament empowerment
Research on the intra-institutional consequences of differences in the EU’s interinstitutional rule configurations is rare. This study …
Frank M. Häge
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Politicising Council decision-making: The effect of European Parliament empowerment
Choice or Circumstance? Adjusting Measures of Foreign Policy Similarity for Chance Agreement
The similarity of states’ foreign policy positions is a standard variable in the dyadic analysis of international relations. …
Frank M. Häge
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Choice or Circumstance? Adjusting Measures of Foreign Policy Similarity for Chance Agreement
Anticipating Resistance: The effect of member state preferences on the European Commission's agenda-setting activity
The high success rate of Commission proposals seems to suggest that the European Commission is very influential in promoting European …
Frank M. Häge, Dimiter Toshkov
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Anticipating Resistance: The effect of member state preferences on the European Commission's agenda-setting activity
Agenda-setting by the European Commission: Using Computer-Assisted Classification Methods to Classify Policy Documents
The European Commission is often considered to be the main agenda-setter in EU policymaking. The Commission produces hundreds of policy …
Frank M. Häge
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Agenda-setting by the European Commission: Using Computer-Assisted Classification Methods to Classify Policy Documents
Who Decides in the Council of the European Union?
This study presents reliable cross-sectoral data on the relative involvement of working parties, senior committees and ministers in …
Frank M. Häge
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Who Decides in the Council of the European Union?
Politischer Konflikt im Entscheidungsfindungsprozess des Ministerrats der Europäischen Union: Eine empirische Analyse institutioneller Einflussfaktoren

Der Rat der Europäischen Union wird generell als die einflussreichste Institution im rechtlichen Gefüge der Europäischen Union (EU) …

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Politischer Konflikt im Entscheidungsfindungsprozess des Ministerrats der Europäischen Union: Eine empirische Analyse institutioneller Einflussfaktoren
Europeanization and the Retreat of the State
Is the state on the retreat? We examine this question through an analysis of changing patterns of government involvement in …
Volker Schneider, Frank M. Häge
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Europeanization and the Retreat of the State
Decision-making in the Council of the European Union: The role of committees
Many legislative decisions of the Council of the European Union are de facto made in preparatory bodies by national officials and …
Frank M. Häge
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Decision-making in the Council of the European Union: The role of committees
Book Review of 'The Powers of the Union: Delegation in the EU' by Fabio Franchino, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007
The proper distribution of powers between the supranational institutions and the member states of the European Union is the object of …
Frank M. Häge
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Book Review of 'The Powers of the Union: Delegation in the EU' by Fabio Franchino, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007
Constructivism, fuzzy sets and (very) small-N: Revisiting the conditions for communicative action
Fuzzy set techniques, both as a methodological and theoretical tool, can engage in a fruitful liaison with constructivist research. …
Frank M. Häge
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Constructivism, fuzzy sets and (very) small-N: Revisiting the conditions for communicative action
The evolution of European legal integration
This article contributes to the development of theories on European integration by testing and exploring statistical models on the …
Torsten J Selck, Mark Rhinard, Frank M. Häge
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The evolution of European legal integration
The Division of Labour in Legislative Decision-Making of the Council of the European Union
Little systematic empirical research exists about legislative decision-making in the Council of the European Union. This study …
Frank M. Häge
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The Division of Labour in Legislative Decision-Making of the Council of the European Union
Reconsidering the European Parliament’s legislative influence: Formal vs. informal procedures
More and more legislative decisions are reached in early stages of the co‐decision procedure through informal negotiations among …
Frank M. Häge, Michael Kaeding
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Reconsidering the European Parliament’s legislative influence: Formal vs. informal procedures
Committee Decision-making in the Council of the European Union
Committees of national officials play a major role in the decision-making of the European Union’s main legislative body, the …
Frank M. Häge
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Committee Decision-making in the Council of the European Union
Book Review of 'Procedural Politics. Issues, Influence, and Institutional Choice in the European Union' by Joseph Jupille, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004
In this book, Joseph Jupille sets out a theory of procedural politics, defined as the ‘everyday conduct of politics not within, but …
Frank M. Häge
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Book Review of 'Procedural Politics. Issues, Influence, and Institutional Choice in the European Union' by Joseph Jupille, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004
Politische und gesellschaftliche Vetospieler in institutionellen Reformen: Die Transformation der Telekommunikation in OECD-Ländern
Johannes M Bauer, Frank M. Häge, Volker Schneider
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Politische und gesellschaftliche Vetospieler in institutionellen Reformen: Die Transformation der Telekommunikation in OECD-Ländern
Political and Societal Veto Players in Regulatory Reform: The Transformation of Telecommunications in OECD Countries
The past two decades have witnessed a significant realignment of the roles of the state and the private sector in infrastructure …
Frank M. Häge
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Political and Societal Veto Players in Regulatory Reform: The Transformation of Telecommunications in OECD Countries
Hauptachsen staatlicher Redimensionierung: Die Rolle von Europäisierung und Globalisierung
Das vorliegende Kapitel beschäftigt sich ebenfalls mit der Transformation auf Sektorebene, untersucht neben dem Telekommunikations- …
Frank M. Häge, Volker Schneider
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Hauptachsen staatlicher Redimensionierung: Die Rolle von Europäisierung und Globalisierung
Determinants of Government Size: The Capacity for Partisan Policy under Political Constraints

This paper examines the influence of government ideology on public sector size through a statistical analysis of pooled time-series and …

Frank M. Häge
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Determinants of Government Size: The Capacity for Partisan Policy under Political Constraints