Smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. Political entrepreneurship for a prosperous Europe

Summary:

This book explores the role of European political entrepreneurship in debating, shaping and implementing the Europe 2020 strategy. Chapters analyse the content, conditions and consequences of Europe 2020, investigating the plan for a future prosperous EU economy.

Further information:

Focussing on how European political entrepreneurship functions in times of crisis, the book considers these crises as potential windows of opportunity. The expert contributors highlight how the 2020 strategy has been debated, decided on, and then implemented from a governance perspective with multiple actors, and look ahead to necessary future developments. Further to this, multi-level governance is discussed as a way to address the demanded socio-economic goals across the EU in order to effect smart, sustainable and inclusive growth.

Contents:

Part I: Europe 2020 and Framework of Study

1. The European Commission and Europe 2020: smart, sustainable and inclusive growth | Daniel Silander
2. EU, Europe 2020 and a social market economy | Daniel Silander

Part II: Core Actors on Europe 2020

3. Policy-making in the European Council and the Council of the EU on Europe 2020: the presidency effect | Brigitte Pircher
4. The European Parliament and the Europe 2020 strategy: an arena for public debate or political entrepreneurship? | Mats Öhlén
5. Local and regional involvement in Europe 2020: a success story? | Brigitte Pircher
6. Europe 2020, EU agencies and political entrepreneurship | Helena Ekelund

Part III: Policies on Smart, Sustainable and Inclusive Growth

7. Policy evaluation in competitiveness: towards more results-oriented industrial policies | Charlie Karlsson and Sam Tavassoli
8. Research and innovation | Anne Haglund-Morrissey
9. Gender equality policy | Charlotte Silander
10. Asylum and migration policies: enabling inclusive growth in the EU? | Anna Parkhouse
11. Climate and environmental politics: resource efficient | Martin Nilsson

Part IV: Concluding Remarks

12. European political entrepreneurship: Europe 2020 to an end | Daniel Silander