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.
Director Turnover: Are We Sustaining our Talent?
Is a national crisis in leadership and turnover in the museum profession looming? Some new data begins to answer to this question.
Ephemera, Temporary Urbanism, and Imaging
Urban ephemera are organized, momentary, repeated urban public presentations. They include parades, festivals, celebrations, outdoor performances, and rituals of all kinds. Because they impress themselves upon the public images of cities in small ways and large, Mark Schuster, a cultural policy analyst, urges city designers and planners to add ephemera planning to their list of tools.
Paying the Piper, Calling the Tune: A Transaction Cost Politics Analysis of the National Endowment for the Arts
The brief history of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) provides a vivid illustration of the problem of optimal degrees of political monitoring and statutory control of agencies.
Sub-National Cultural Policy - Where the Action is? Mapping State Cultural Policy in the United States
This paper introduces some new thinking about the role and contribution of cultural programs at the sub-national level, illustrating these ideas by reference to the role of the states in the United States. It is based on a pilot project for the Mapping of State Cultural Policy in the United States.