Overview
- Provides a comprehensive analysis of why government funds the arts
- Draws from economic methods and various philosophical frameworks
- Offers practical considerations for public funding of the arts
Part of the book series: New Directions in Cultural Policy Research (NDCPR)
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About this book
This book provides a detailed account, and critique, of diverse approaches to the arts funding question, with a focus on the arm’s length arts councils that are the norm in the Anglo-American world. It builds on economic methods, the liberal-egalitarian framework of John Rawls, the communitarian opposition to the liberal framework, the capabilities approach to equality, and the cultural conservatism of Roger Scruton and others. In each case, the book considers the very practical aspect of public funding of the arts, namely, what are the implications for what ought to receive priority, and what parts of the cultural world are best left to their own, private sector, devices. It is not a work of “arts advocacy”. Rather, the book challenges assumptions, and sparks critical debate in the field.
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─Jonathan Paquette, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Michael Rushton teaches in the Arts Administration program in the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University, and is Co-Director of its Center for Cultural Affairs.He is the author of Strategic Pricing for the Arts (2014) and the editor of Creative Communities: Art Works in Economic Development ( 2013), and has published articles on all aspects of cultural affairs, including copyright, freedom of expression, public funding of the arts, the role of nonprofit organizations, tax policy and the arts, authors’ legal rights, and the arts and local economic development, spanning a career in this subject area of twenty-five years.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Moral Foundations of Public Funding for the Arts
Authors: Michael Rushton
Series Title: New Directions in Cultural Policy Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35106-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-35105-1Published: 27 June 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-35108-2Due: 28 July 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-35106-8Published: 26 June 2023
Series ISSN: 2730-924X
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9258
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 185
Topics: Media and Communication, Cultural Policy and Politics, Media Policy, Ethics