9 Forms of governance, governmentality and the EU’s Open Method of Coordination
Roger Dale
The continuing expansion and deepening of the European Union (EU) has generated a range of questions about the nature of governing. It has both introduced intriguing new questions about the EU’s own nature and characterization, and added piquancy to debates about the nature of the nation-state. The main focus of this paper will be the Open Method of Coordination (OMC), introduced at the EU’s Lisbon Summit in 2000 alongside an agenda that set out to charter the Union’s trajectory for the next decade. More broadly, the OMC can be seen as an alternative method of supranational governance to be brought about through such means as benchmarking, ...
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