Understanding Cultural Policy Discovering the Creative Industries Series

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

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.