This book analyses the institutional and administrative achievements of the Lisbon agenda, most ambitious plan of the European Union over the last ten years.

It was published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.

1. The Politics of Governance Architectures: Creation, Change and Effects of the EU Lisbon Strategy Susana Borrás and Claudio M. Radaelli 2. Principal-Agent Theory and the Open Method of Co-ordination: The Case of the European Employment Strategy Caroline de la Porte 3. From Harmonization to Co-ordination? EU Law in the Lisbon Governance Architecture Stijn Smismans 4. The Lisbon Strategy's Empowerment of Core Executives: Centralizing and Politicizing EU National Co-ordination Susana Borrás and B. Guy Peters 5. The Europeanization of Flexicurity: The Lisbon Strategy's Impact on Employment Policies in Italy and Poland Anna Gwiazda 6. The Lisbon Strategy and the Politicization of EU Policy-Making: The Case of the Services Directive Jeff Loder 7. From Bologna to Lisbon: The Political Uses of the Lisbon 'Script' in European Higher Education Policy Giliberto Capano and Simona Piatton

Susana Borrás is Professor of Governance and Innovation, and head of the Department of Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark.

Claudio M. Radaelli is Professor of political science at the University of Exeter, where he directs the Centre for European Governance.