The Lisbon Agenda and Public Administration

Abstract

The life-world of the Lisbon Agenda, today’s Europe, can be described as a primarily administered environment. In spite of all criticism of the public sector and its organization, it retains its significant, often dominating role in economy and society. It is therefore baffling that the original Lisbon Strategy does not address this subject at all, nor was this remedied in the Kok Report or any other documents until 2005. In that sense, public administration was the missing dimension of the Lisbon Agenda. Only from 2006 do we see a trickle of mentions of public administration in Lisbon Agenda-related documents, especially as concerns its role in innovation (which is very different from ‘innovative practices in public administration’). The Implementation Report 2006 states that there is a role of the public sphere in the innovation process (p. 17), and the Lahti conclusions (2006, pp. 6-7) likewise acknowledge this role. In all the documents that mention the Lisbon Agenda, including later ones, even if they are not factually linked, the same tendency is visible: A focus on e-government, public procurement, and innovation (usually very loosely understood).

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