1st Edition

Understanding Cultural Policy

By Carole Rosenstein Copyright 2018
    288 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    288 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    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.

    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

    Policy Lab: The Federal Role in Cultural Policy

    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

    Policy Lab: Measuring Culture

    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

    Biography

    Carole Rosenstein is an associate professor of arts management at George Mason University, USA. She has directed research projects for the Urban Institute, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Institute for Museum and Library Services. Her scholarly work has been published in leading international cultural policy journals including The International Journal of Cultural Policy; The Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society; and Cultural Trends.

    "…an essential resource that lays a strong foundation for study and praxis in any cultural policy context found throughout the world…a go-to resource for cultural policy and arts management faculty in universities around the world…an excellent textbook that has been urgently needed." - The Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society

    "…an expansive, detail-filled primer on the underlying values, historical context, institutions and interventions that constitute contemporary US cultural policy…provides analytical lenses that offer perspectives distinct from many existing assessments of policy that rely on economic theory and tools…informative and valuable to professionals and scholars who identify themselves with any corner of the decentralised and wide-ranging US cultural policy field." - Cultural Trends