The achievements of cohesion policy: long-period evidence on the factors conditioning success and failure from 15 selected regions

Crescenzi, Riccardo ORCID: 0000-0003-0465-9796, Fratesi, Ugo and Monastiriotis, Vassilis ORCID: 0000-0003-3709-3119 (2016) The achievements of cohesion policy: long-period evidence on the factors conditioning success and failure from 15 selected regions. In: Dotti, Nicola Francesco, (ed.) Learning from Implementation and Evaluation of the EU Cohesion Policy: Lessons from a Research-policy Dialogue. RSA Research Network on Cohesion Policy, Brussels, Belgium, pp. 109-125. ISBN 9782960187908

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Abstract

This paper exploits a unique dataset on regional interventions in 15 beneficiary regions of the European Regional Development Fund over four programming periods (1989-2013) to examine empirically the processes and conditioning factors underpinning success and failure of such interventions over time and across space. Our core results suggest an elevated role for two key policy-design factors in maximising the achievements of Cohesion Policy: planning consistency (confluence between planned and realised expenditures), and alignment between regional needs and programme objectives. Although derived from a ‘selected’ sample, we claim that the obtained results may generalise well beyond the 15 regions studied here.

Item Type:	Book Section
Official URL:	http://www.regionalstudies.org/
Additional Information:	© 2016 The Authors © CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Divisions:	European Institute
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe)
Date Deposited:	19 Oct 2016 09:25
Last Modified:	11 Dec 2024 17:51
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/68074

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