Special Issue: The politics of the Lisbon Agenda: governance architectures and domestic usages of Europe

Susana Borrás & Claudio M. Radaelli: The politics of governance architectures: creation, change and effects of the EU Lisbon Strategy

Caroline de la Porte: Principal–agent theory and the Open Method of Co-ordination: the case of the European Employment Strategy

Stijn Smismans: From harmonization to co-ordination? EU law in the Lisbon governance architecture

Susana Borrás & B. Guy Peters: The Lisbon Strategy's empowerment of core executives: centralizing and politicizing EU national co-ordination

Anna Gwiazda: The Europeanization of flexicurity: the Lisbon Strategy's impact on employment policies in Italy and Poland

Jeff Loder: The Lisbon Strategy and the politicization of EU policy-making: the case of the Services Directive

Giliberto Capano & Simona Piattoni: From Bologna to Lisbon: the political uses of the Lisbon ‘script’ in European higher education policy