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Arts councils, policy-making and "the local".
- Source :
- Cultural Trends; Sep2019, Vol. 28 Issue 4, p317-331, 15p
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- In the British Isles, national policies for the arts are primarily viewed as the responsibility of arts councils with statutory duties to distribute state funding that meet the requirements of both "arms-length" principles and national strategic frameworks. This paper explores the tensions between policy making for the nation-state and for "the local" through comparative research on the arts councils (and equivalent bodies) in Scotland, England and Northern Ireland. Drawing on in-depth qualitative interviews with senior representatives from these organisations, it explores their notions of, responsibilities to and affiliations with "the local". Findings suggest that despite their different models and relationships to the nation-state, and the disparities in the scale of investment, these national policy bodies commonly rely on networked governance to facilitate their relationship to "the local" which risks reproducing national interests, limiting the localised agency of place-based approaches and contributing to a culture of competition within cultural policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- CULTURAL policy
CITIZENS
DECISION making
FEDERAL government
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09548963
- Volume :
- 28
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Cultural Trends
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 138454465
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09548963.2019.1644795