Abstract
This article, concerning State and Regions cultural policies, examines the hypothesis of changes resulting fewer ideals transformations than of new instruments implementation. The discourses on these policies, the ambitions which give them the political leaders are indeed struck by a big slowness. On the other hand, the public cultural interventions are marked since a few years by the introduction of standards of management or relatively unpublished plans of intervention. It will thus be a question of measuring the impact of the changes which can result from it. The first part handles instruments of the State reform and in their impact on its cultural departments decentralized at the regional level. The second part focuses on the instruments implemented by the Regional Councils in the context of their own cultural policies.