Same money, different impact? The curving effect of European Structural and Investment Funds on EU support in Spain (1990-2019)

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• dc.contributor.author Cantó, Joel
• dc.contributor.author Baraibar, Javier
• dc.contributor.author Arregui, Javier
• dc.date.accessioned 2025-05-06T08:21:28Z
• dc.date.available 2025-05-06T08:21:28Z
• dc.date.issued 2025
• dc.date.updated 2025-05-06T08:21:28Z
• dc.description.abstract European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) engender European Union (EU) support in generating economic growth, but their effect is conditional on individual European identity and educational background. This study investigates whether the positive impact of ESIF spending on EU attitudes also depends on the alignment of funding with the economic needs of recipient regions. We examine this issue with the Spanish case (1990-2019), employing a unique combined data set of Eurobarometer waves and regional NUTS-2 economic indicators. Our findings indicate that EU funds manage to decrease Euroscepticism only in laggard regions, which receive the lion's share of funds and allocate them to public goods easily perceived and communicated to the local population. Conversely, the effect of ESIF on transforming attitudes is absent in middle and high-income regions. The findings suggest a more complicated relationship between ESIF and EU support, which necessitates taking both individual and contextual factors into account.
• dc.description.sponsorship This work was supported by the Erasmus+ program of the European Union under Grants 101085465-BACES and 101047889-EU-GOV (Jean Monnet Chair in European Union Governance). and by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities under grant PID2020-119716GB-I00 (El impacto de las capacidades formales e informales en el proceso de toma de decisiones legislativas en el Parlamento Europeo).
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• dc.identifier.citation Cantó J, Baraibar J, Arregui J. Same money, different impact? The curving effect of European Structural and Investment Funds on EU support in Spain (1990-2019). Eur Policy Anal. 2025 Winter;11(1):54-74. DOI: 10.1002/epa2.1232
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/epa2.1232
• dc.identifier.issn 2380-6567
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/70308
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Wiley
• dc.relation.ispartof European Policy Analysis. 2025 Winter;11(1):54-74
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/2PE/PID2020‐119716GB‐I00
• dc.rights © 2024 The Author(s). This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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• dc.subject.keyword Comparative regionalism
• dc.subject.keyword Economic development
• dc.subject.keyword European Structural and Investment Funds
• dc.subject.keyword European Union
• dc.subject.keyword Euroscepticism
• dc.title Same money, different impact? The curving effect of European Structural and Investment Funds on EU support in Spain (1990-2019)
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