Europe and National Economic Transformation

CHRISTOPHER S. ALLEN Associate Professor and Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of International Affairs in the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia, USADAVID L. CLEETON Visiting Professor of Finance, Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University, USARICHARD DEEG Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Temple University, USAMAXIMILIAN FREIER PhD student at the European Institute of the London School of Economics, UK and a member of the Political Science and Political Economy research group at LSEUMIT GUNER Associate Professor at Dumlupinar University, TurkeyPETIA KOSTADINOVA Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USADEBORAH MABBETT Professor of Public Policy and Head of the Department of Politics, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK GEORG MENZ Reader in Political Economy in the Department of Politics, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK WALTRAUD SCHELKLE Senior Lecturer in Political Economy at the European Institute of the London School of Economics, UK MEHMET UGUR Jean Monnet Reader in European Political Economy at the University of Greenwich Business School, UK A. MAURITS VAN DER VEEN Assistant Professor of Government at the College of William & Mary, USARAMUNAS VILPISAUSKAS Professor and Director of the Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University, Lithuania

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• Introduction: Evaluating the Lisbon Process, a Soft Approach to Hard Objectives; M.P.Smith PART I: LISBON, 'COMPETITIVENESS' AND NATIONAL MACROECONOMIC PERFORMANCE Evaluating the Performance Record under the Lisbon Agenda; D.L.Cleeton Innovation and Competition in the EU15: Empirical Evidence on the Lisbon Decade and Beyond; M.Ugur & U.Guner PART II: LISBON AND NATIONAL MODELS OF CAPITALISM European Integration, Social Protection, and the Lisbon Agenda; A.M.van der Veen & C.S.Allen Innovation Financing in Europe: What has Financial Market Integration Brought?; R.Deeg Lisbon and 'Better Regulation': Implications for National Regulatory Governance; M.P.Smith PART III: LISBON, LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT The Transformation of Public Employment Services During the Lisbon Decade; W.Schelkle , D.Mabbett , & M.Freier Adapting Pension Policy to meet the Lisbon Strategy's Goals; P.Kostadinova Re-Discovering Migration as a Strategy for Human Resources: Employers and the Rhetorical Claims of Competitiveness during the Lisbon Era ; G.Menz Conclusion: Does Europe 2020 represent learning from the Lisbon strategy?; R.Vilpi auskas