Jacint Jordana Casajuana , Fabiola Mota Consejero
, Andrea Noferini
This paper focus on the European Cohesion Policy in the regional level at its programming stage. It argues that Structural Funds have been very influential in shaping regional development policy-making. Europeanization of the regional policy in Spain has involved an increasing role for regional governments, which have adopted a set of homogeneous practices and procedurals as regard to cohesion policy programming and implementation. However, empirical evidence drawn from Murcia and Galicia�s regions related to the programming financial period 2007-2013 (ROPs) highlights the configuration of different regional policy networks to deal with such programming tasks. Also, different features of social capital among the network�s actors arise for both regions. These findings suggest that their policy processes are quite different �in spite of similar formal procedures�, and raise new questions about the sources of such variations.