a strategy in search of a regional policy rationale?

Leslie Budd

Policy Studies, 2013, vol. 34, issue 3, 274-290

Abstract: This article critically examines the European Union's (EU) 10-year strategy Europe 2020; A European strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, in the context of the financial and fiscal crisis and the fifth Cohesion Report produced by the European Commission in 2010. It does so in order to develop the argument that without a regional policy rationale that rests on the application of industrial policy as a fulcrum for integrating the different components of the domain governance of Europe 2020, its objectives may not be realised. The article concludes with a speculation on how fuzzy set analysis could be used as an evaluation methodology in order to contribute to policy analysis of how these components may be better integrated in developing the EU's key strategy for the rest of the decade.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1080/01442872.2013.771056

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