Abstract
Abstract The main goal of the grand strategy Europe 2020 is to achieve smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. Implementation of such grand strategy is an arduous process, which has so far more often than not resulted in implementation deficit. The article follows the Cultural Political Economy approach and is based on a premise that to successfully implement a grand strategy of Europe 2020 and its successor strategies, we need to construe the strategy as a hegemonic discourse that needs to pass the evolutionary mechanisms of variation, selection and retention. Possible mechanism of retention of Europe 2020 is the innovative educational that was developed and tested in Jean Monnet Chair project Cultural Political Economy of Europe 2020. The approach can contribute to awareness of EU grand strategies and their implementation through other programmatic documents and advance interdisciplinary EU studies dealing with the phenomenon of EU implementation deficit.
Highlights
The European Union implementation deficit has since long been the subject of intense interest by both researchers and policy-maklers
A research based on the Cultural Political Economy approach, based on evolutionary mechanisms of variation, selection and retention of dominant discourses (Jessop 2004; Jessop 2010; Jessop and Oosterlynck 2008), as well as on mechanisms of selectivities (Ngai-Ling and Jessop 2014) has concluded that it the EU is to successfully meet its
The Evidence of Impact Achieving sustained development is an overwhelming task. It needs to take into account a number of complex socio-cultural factors
Summary
The European Union implementation deficit has since long been the subject of intense interest by both researchers and policy-maklers. This is the case for its ambitious grand strategies. The relevance of the mechanisms of variation, selection and retention of dominant discourse of Europe 2020 is implied by all contributions to this special issue. In their separate contributions, Cepoi, Gangaliuc and Pandiloska Jurak deal with the “smart” growth, tackling the issues of research (Pandiloska Jurak and Gangaliuc) and digital transformation (Cepoi). Fric presents the case for “sustainable” growth in her contribution on circular economy
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