Description
Understanding Cultural Policy provides a practical, comprehensive introduction to thinking about how and why governments intervene in the arts and culture.
Cultural policy expert Carole Rosenstein examines the field through comparative, historical, and administrative lenses, while engaging directly with the issues and tensions that plague policy-makers across the world, including issues of censorship, culture-led development, cultural measurement, and globalization. Several of the textbook’s chapters end with a ‘policy lab’ designed to help students tie theory and concepts to real world, practical applications.
This book will prove a new and valuable resource for all students of cultural policy, cultural administration, and arts management.
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 – What is Cultural Policy?
Norms
A challenge
A rationale
Goals
Chapter 2 – A (Very) Brief History of the Development of National Cultural Policy in the United States
Chapter 3 – The Cultural Bureaucracy
The Policy Arena
Cultural Bureaucracy on the National Level
On the Sub-national level
On the Local level
The Organization of Cultural Bureaucracy
The Federal Role in Cultural PolicyPolicy Lab:
Chapter 4 – Forms of State Intervention I: Regulation
Certification
Standards and Bans
Licensing and Permits
Planning
Policy Lab: Culture and the City
Chapter 5 - Forms of State Intervention II: Provision
Public Provision
Subsidy
Grantmaking
Tax Expenditure
Policy Lab: Supporting Nonprofit Culture
Chapter 6 – Data and Research in Cultural Policymaking
Measuring CulturePolicy Lab:
Chapter 7 – Comparing Cultural Policies
Archetypes of National Cultural Policy
Global Cultural Policy Norms
Chapter 8 – Contemporary Issues
Creativity
Place
Cultural Equity
Afterword
Bibliography
Index
