New development: Implementing and evaluating government strategic plans—the Europe 2020 Strategy |
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| Authors: | Anne Drumaux Paul Joyce |
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| Institution: | 1. Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Belgium;2. Institute for Local Government Studies (Inlogov), University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK |
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| Abstract: | ABSTRACTThis article examines the implementation of the Europe 2020 Strategy. The authors analysed the strategic and management plans of the European Commission’s directorates-general (DGs) to identify the main and dominant discourses in the documents. The supplementing or supplanting of the simple strategy framework of the early years by a political framework after 2014 can be seen as caused by an interaction between rational management evaluation on one hand and political values and will on the other. |
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| Keywords: | Europe 2020 Strategy political will strategic management textometric analysis |
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