Full Description
In any policy arena, the crafting of effective policy depends on the quality of the information infrastructure that is available to the participants in that arena. Such an information infrastructure is designed, developed, and managed as a critical element in policy formulation and implementation. While various attempts have been made to map the extent of the existing cultural policy information infrastructure in the United States, no structured attempt has been made to conduct a cross-national analysis intended to draw on the more highly developed models already in operation elsewhere.A cross-national comparative look provides valuable information on how this infrastructure has evolved, on what has succeeded and what has had less success, on what is sustainable and what is not, and on how the range of interests of the various individuals and institutions involved in the cultural policy arena can best be accommodated through careful design of the information infrastructure.In Informing Cultural Policy, international cultural policy scholar and researcher J. Mark Schuster relates the findings of a study that took him from North America to Europe to gain understanding of the cultural policy information infrastructure in place abroad. His findings are structured into a taxonomy that organizes the array of research and information models operating throughout the world into a logical framework for understanding how the myriad cultural agencies collect, analyze, and disseminate cultural policy data. Schuster discusses private- and public-sector models, including research divisions of government cultural funding agencies, national statistics agencies, independent nonprofit research institutes, government-designated university-based research centers, private consulting firms, cultural "observatories," non-institutional networks, research programs, and publications. For each case study undertaken, the author provides the Internet address, names, and information for key contacts, and background documents consulted.
Contents
I: The Research and Information Infrastructure; Introduction; Themes, Findings, and Conclusions; II: Research and Documentation Centens; Introduction; France; Ministry of Culture and Communication Département des Etudes et de la Prospective Paris; Observatoire des Politiques Culturelles Grenoble; CEPAT: Centre de Pecherche sur le Politique, I Administration, la Ville et le Territoire Université P ierre Mendès Erance (Grenoble II) Grenoble; Other CNRS Research Centers; Other CNRS Research Centers; Related CNRS Researeh Centers; The Netherlands; The Boekmanstichting/The Boekman Foundation Amsterdam; Ministry of Education, Culture an cience Cultural Policij Directorate Zoetermeer; Social and Cultural Planning Office The Hague; Great Britain; The Arts Council of England Research and Development Directorate Research Department London; Department for Culture, Media and Sport Statistics and Social Policij Unit and Economics Branch London; International Intelligence on Culture London; EUCLID International Liverpool; Cultural Trends Policy Studies Institute University of Westminster London; Canada; Canadian Heritage Strategic Research and Analysis Directorate Hull, Québec; The Canada Council for the Arts Public Affairs, Research and Communications Division Pesearch Unit Ottawa, Ontario; Statistics Canada Culture Statistics Program Ottawa, Ontario; Canadian Heritage The Canadian Cultural Observatory Hull, Québec; Institut de la Statistique du Québec L'Observatoire de la Culture et des Communications Québec City, Québec; Other Countiries; Zentrum für Kulturforschung Bonn, Germany; The Budapest Observatory: Regional Observatory on Financing Culture in East-Central Europe Budapest, Hungary; III: Research and Documentation Consortia; Introduction; CIRCLE: Cultural Information and Research Centres Liaison in Europe Amsterdam, the Netherlands; ERICArts European Research Institute for Comparative Cultural Policij and the Arts Bonn, Germany; Council of Europe Cultural Policy and Action Department Program for the Evaluation of Mational Cultural Policies Strasbourg, Erance; UMESCO Cultural Policies for Development Unit International Network of Observatories in Cultural Policies Paris, Frranee; Culturelink Network of Networks for Research and Cooperation in Cultural Development, Institute for International Relations Zagreb, Croatia; Canadian Cultural Research Network Centre for Cultural Management University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
