The Lisbon Strategy's empowerment of core executives: centralizing and politicizing EU national co-ordination
- 24 May 2011
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Informa UK Limited in Journal of European Public Policy
- Vol. 18 (4), 525-545
- https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2011.560077
Abstract
This paper studies the effects of the Lisbon Strategy on the way in which national executives co-ordinate EU policy at the domestic level. Comparing seven countries (Denmark, the United Kingdom [UK], Austria, Slovenia, Spain, France and Poland) it finds evidence that the Lisbon Strategy has been advancing (further) centralization and politicization in national patterns of EU policy co-ordination, empowering core executives. The Lisbon Strategy's ideational elements (‘grand’ goals and politically visible targets) as well as organizational requirements (Spring Council, national programming and annual reports) are factors behind this phenomenon. These results have implications for the literature on Europeanization, international politics, and governance studies in what is eminently an empirical research agenda about how far and how changes in international governance architectures affect the redistribution of power within national executives.Keywords
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