Contingent Valuation and Cultural Policies: Some Challenges and a Case Study
Although CVM has been widely used for valuing non-market goods its application to the measurement of cultural goods has been limited.
Willingness to Pay for Submerged Maritime Cultural Resources
How much are people willing to pay to maintain shipwrecks in their pristine state?
Valuing the Arts: A Contingent Valuation Approach
Efforts to cut funding to the National Endowment for the Arts and declining budgets for state arts agencies have raised questions about how much individuals value the arts. This paper applies the contingent valuation method to assess this value, using surveys of random households and of arts patrons in Kentucky.
How Modern Societies Maintain Cultural Values by Financing Cultural Goods
Can Contingent Valuation results substitute market results in the field of cultural policy? My answer is a clear "no". No, the data generated by contingent valuation surveys on the amount of dollars which citizens are willing to pay for cultural goods cannot be used to improve public policy.
Is CVM an appropriate evaluation methodology to support national public policy and decision-making in the contemporary arts?
In this paper I would like to address broader questions to do with the kinds of cultural value and evaluation problems experienced by organisations like the Arts Council of Ireland, and some of the constraints that might limit the relevance of CVM from our perspective.