This article will address the receipt procedures of the European local development program, LEADER, in France and Lithuania. We will use an empirical approach to focus on groups of actors who have supported, at local level, the LEADER device. Formally, these local action groups (LAGs) proceed in the creation of networking partnerships. These engage local stakeholders in a collective approach by interdependence links, more or less complex and more or less intense. These links are the basis for a local action system which reexamines the organization of the local area. From the study of the configuration of local partnerships in the LAGs of Gevaudan-Lozère (France) and Joniškis (Lithuania), the research asks about the transformation at local level of the public action mode in two different national contexts. Priority is given to the monographic study, the analysis of the composition of actors' networks in charge of local development, then the nature of linkages between individuals of these networks. This article will help to understand how local action systems face the interplay between national logics of institutional transfer and local context effects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]