The lisbon strategy's empowerment of core executives: Centralizing and politicizing EU national co-ordination

Journal of European Public Policy

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 525-545

  Borrás, Susana ^a   Peters, B Guy ^b  

^a Copenhagen Business School ^*  (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Empowerment; European union; Europeanization; Executive politics; Horizontal co ordination; New modes of governance; NNational core executives; Policy co ordination

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957629135     PISSN: 13501763     EISSN: 14664429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2011.560077     Document Type: Article

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