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Theoretical Strategies for the Analysis of Cultural Policy Formation : The Case of the Nea
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- Issue Date
- 2006-06
- Citation
- Development and Society, Vol.35 No.1, pp. 61-82
- Keywords
- Cultural policy ; Cultural systems ; State-society relation ; Policy domain ; Policy formation
- Abstract
- This paper reviews various theoretical approaches to cultural policy, specifically, the National Endowments for the Arts (NEA), a federal arts funding program in the United States. Marxist, organizational, state-centered, and cultural approaches are reviewed regarding their relevance to the question of how ard arts, which had been considered private in the past, become a public good with the advent of the NEA? I synthesize state-centered and cultural approaches to explain the NEA development. Following state-centered approach, I argue that the state initiated the NEA through its structural capability to lead the policy formation and guide action within the policy domain. However, following a cultural approach, I argue that the NEA is effective to the extent the policy frame resonates with broader cultural systems cutting across the state-society boundaries. In this process, the policy domain invites a variety of interests and identities by which the state hegemony in defining arts as a public good is contested and reformulated.
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- 1598-8074
- Language
- English
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