ABSTRACT
Despite the limited attention of the scientific literature, a focus on peer reviews within the broader framework of the Lisbon and Europe 2020 anti-poverty strategies seems promising for at least three reasons. This chapter describes the basic features of peer review meetings and presents the case studies. It illustrates the analytical framework that has driven the process-tracing conducted for each of selected seminars. The chapter focuses on five peer review meetings held between 2009 and 2011, that is, the last year of the Lisbon Strategy and the beginning of the Europe 2020 Strategy. Eighty-seven peer reviews were organised between 2004 and 2016, most of them linked to the 'social inclusion strand' of the Social Open Method of Coordination. However, in a few cases, some consequences of the peer reviews were found to extend beyond cognitive effects — i.e. the 'transfer' of the knowledge acquired during the meeting to domestic policies.
