Capacidad administrativa e implementación de la política de cohesión de la UE

Cristina Ares Castro-Conde

doi:10.24965/gapp.11061

Authors

Cristina Ares Castro-Conde Universidad de Santiago de Compostela https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2278-629X

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24965/gapp.11061

Keywords:

Administrative capacity, EU cohesion policy, Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO), policy capacity

Abstract

The success of EU cohesion policy, as it happens more generally with the public policies that are made at the EU level, is dependent on the administrative capacity of the public organizations with implementing powers within each Member State, including the regional and local tiers. The necessity to develop these skills in different territories and sectors, to guarantee the execution of the investments assigned, has required the European Commission, in cooperation with the OECD in some initiatives, to provide diverse tools for national Administrations to help them to strengthen these skills. This contribution reviews the conceptual literature on policy capacity, and it clarifies the definition of administrative capacity. Furthermore, it examines various empirical papers that deal with the link between administrative capacity and the absorption of EU funds, along with the main projects for administrative capacity development that have been conducted by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy (DG REGIO).

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Author Biography

Cristina Ares Castro-Conde, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela

She is Associate Professor of European Studies and Comparative Politics at the University of Santiago de Compostela. She holds a PhD in Political Science and Public Administration and a diploma in European Political and Administrative Studies from the College of Europe in Bruges. She has completed her training at other academic institutions such as the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, the Hertie School (Jacques Delors Centre) and the Center for the Study of Europe at Boston University. Her research activity focuses on EU politics and policies, and political parties’ manifestos, among other topics.

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