Rural development policies and decision-making levels: an organisational approach

Abstract

Due to their own complexity, related with the stakes and actors variety and interdependency, rural development concerns account for more and more sophisticated action settings, which contents is defined not only beforehand but also all along the implementation stage. This paper puts an analysis grid, which accounts for the multilevel organization of these action settings. This grid is then used to show the construction at different levels of the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) setting. Prospects are finally suggested about the conception of action settings in this field.