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1.1 In this critical review I will be looking at the topic of Europeanisation and in particular its impact on the executive branch of national governments. The two articles in which I will be reviewing are:

1) Adapting to Brussels: Europeanization of the core executive and the 'strategic-projection' model; Scott James- Journal of European Public Policy 17:6 September 2010 818-835 (herein referred to as James)

2) The Lisbon Strategy's empowerment of core executives: centralising and politicizing EU national co-ordination: Susana Borras and B. Guy Peters; Journal of European Public Policy 18:4 June 2011: 525-545 (herein referred to as Borras)

In James the authors aim to put forward a model which attempts to explain the adaption of executive national governments to Europeanisation. The author looks at this using a 'bottom-up' analysis and focuses its study on the UK government under Blair and the Ahern government in Ireland. James proposes that Europeanisation is operating through three distinctive models- strategic adaption, supranational learning and administrative optimisation.

In Borras the authors study the effects of the Lisbon Strategy on the way in which national executives co-ordinated their policies. They investigate, in particular, whether centralisation