Clive Gray
Biographic Data
| ID | 3710374 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Clive Gray |
| GIVEN NAMES | Clive |
| FAMILY NAME | Gray |
| SIGNATURE | GRAY C |
| AFFILIATIONS | De Montfort University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 305 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Change? Decay? Promise? Fifty years of local government cultural services in the UK
Research prioritisation on prevention and management of preterm birth in low and middle-income countries (LMICs) with a special focus on Bangladesh using the Child Health and Nutrition Research Initia…
Background: Fifteen million babies are born preterm globally each year, with 81% occurring in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Preterm birth complications are the leading cause of newborn deaths and significantly impact health, quality of life, and costs of health services. Improving outcomes for newborns and their families requires prioritising research for developing practical, scalable solutions, especially in low-resource settings su…
Culture is Digital and the shifting terrain of UK cultural policy
In this paper, a change to the remit and title of a UK government department provides a starting point for reflection on the growing role of digital technologies in the re-imagination of UK cultural policy. An early strategic report produced by the re-named DCMS was entitled Culture is Digital. Identifying the UK’s cultural and technology sectors as ‘the ultimate power couple,’ this report directs the cultural sector towards the use of technology…
Analysing the Adjectival Museum: Exploring the bureaucratic nature of museums and the implications for researchers and the research process
The proliferation of titles for types of museum has resulted in an adjectival explosion in recent years (with museums being engaging, relevant, professional, adaptive, community, national, universal, local, independent, people's, children's, scientific, natural history, labour, virtual, symbolic, connected, trust and charitable, amongst many other labels). This paper argues that the adoption of an organizational focus on bureaucratic features suc…
Hyperinstrumentalism and cultural policy: Means to an end or an end to meaning
This paper investigates the implications for cultural policy of the logic of the instrumental view of culture taken to its conclusion. Policy developments that establish sets of justifications and rationales that have nothing to do with the cultural content of the policy concerned, but which arise from a deliberate realignment of policy frameworks, establish a form of hyperinstrumentalism. With hyperinstrumentalism the focus on outcomes and the e…
The origins of the arts council movement: Philanthropy and policy
The origins of the arts council movement: philanthropy and policy." Cultural Trends, 26(2), pp. 172–173
Local government and the arts revisited
This article discusses policy developments in the arts and local government since the publication of the original article on this topic. It assesses the continued relevance of the thinking behind policy attachment in the original article for understanding and explaining policy in this sector, and indicates the direction in which the concept of policy attachment could be developed in both analytical and empirical ways
Structure, Agency and Museum Policies
This paper reports on the results of recent empirical research on the interaction of structure and agency in the museums sector in England in the context of policy-making within individual museums and galleries. Policy in the museums sector is subject to a large number of political, economic, social and technological pressures and demands that are both externally and internally created: the management of these pressures and demands provides the o…
Analitzar la política cultural: Incorregiblement plural o incompatible ontològicament
Els enfocaments de l’estudi de la política cultural solen vincular-se a disciplines concretes, cosa que pot dur a un fracàs en l’intent d’apreciar les diferencies reals entre aquestes disciplines d’acord amb el que investiguen i com es realitzen aquestes recerques. Les diferències en els nivells ontològic, epistemològic i metodològic entre diverses disciplines impliquen que no siga possible adoptar sense més el que cada disciplina diu sobre la po…
Ambiguity and Cultural Policy
The peculiarities of cultural policy as a policy sector give rise to many difficulties for policy-makers – particularly the creation of poorly-defined and confused policies – stemming from the essentially-contested nature of the core concept with which it is dealing. This is identified as a problem of policy ambiguity, with ambiguity being endemic to the sector. This ambiguity is expressed in multiple ways in terms of policy contents, expectation…
Cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in’ or ‘we are not a government poodle: Structure and agency in museums and galleries
Arguments within political science, public administration and public policy about how to both conceptualise and operationalise structure and agency in analysis have tended to operate at the level of ontology – and occasionally at the level of epistemology. This paper argues that development at the methodological level is required to make sense of the complexities of this debate. An analysis of how structure and agency can be applied to the museum…
Museums and the 'new museology: Theory, Practice and Organisational Change
The widening of roles and expectations within cultural policy discourses has been a challenge to museum workers throughout Great Britain. There has been an expectation that museums are changing from an ‘old’ to a ‘new museology’ that has shaped museum functions and roles. This paper outlines the limitations of this perceived transition as museum services confront multiple exogenous and endogenous expectations, opportunities, pressures and threats…
Culture in economics: History, methodological reflections and contemporary application
Culture in economics: history, methodological reflections and contemporary application, by S. Beugelsdijk and R. Maseland, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2011, xx + 388 pp., £55.00, ISBN 97
Democratic cultural policy: Democratic forms and policy consequences
The forms that are adopted to give practical meaning to democracy are assessed to identify what their implications are for the production of public policies in general and cultural policies in particular. A comparison of direct, representative, democratic elitist and deliberative versions of democracy identifies clear differences between them in terms of policy form and democratic practice. Further elaboration of these differences and their conse…
Are governmental culture departments important? An empirical investigation
There are many claims that the involvement of national governments with the cultural policy sector tends to err towards being undertaken reluctantly and with relatively low levels of practical support (Gray, 2009; McCall, 2009; Mulcahy, 2006; Rindzeviciute, 2008; Wyszomirski, 1999). Such a position for national governments can be explained as being a consequence of political choices to avoid accusations of state censorship or manipulation, or a l…
Understanding policy success: Rethinking public policy
Understanding policy success: rethinking public policy, by Allan McConnell, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, 288 pp., £65.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-230-23974-6, £23.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-0
Museums, Galleries, Politics and Management
Politics takes diverse forms within the museums sector, from the effect of national government policies and funding decisions to the manner in which the contents of museums are presented to the public. This diversity of political forms leads to the creation of a range of administrative and managerial contexts within which museums operate. This paper explores the relationship of political practices and administrative and managerial regimes for the…
Hugh Jenkins, The culture gap: An experience of government and the arts
Hugh Jenkins, The culture gap: an experience of government and the arts ." International Journal of Cultural Policy, 16(1), pp. 35–36
Analysing cultural policy: Incorrigibly plural or ontologically incompatible
Approaches to the study of cultural policy are currently tied to particular disciplines. This can lead to a failure to appreciate the real differences between these disciplines in terms of what they are investigating, and how they go about these investigations. The differences that exist at ontological, epistemological and methodological levels between differing disciplines mean that it is not possible to simply adopt what each discipline is sayi…
Managing Cultural Policy: Pitfalls and Prospects
Cultural policies have become increasingly used by governments to fulfil a large number of policy requirements. The extent to which such policies are capable of being effective in fulfilling governmental goals is open to doubt since there are considerable definitional, methodological, analytical and structural difficulties associated with such policies. This paper identifies and analyses these difficulties and indicates that considerable pitfalls…
Arts Council England and public value: A critical review
This is an electronic version of an article published in Gray, C. J. (2008) Arts council England and public value: a critical review. International Journal of Cultural Policy, 14 (2), pp. 209-214. International Journal of Cultural Policy is available online at: \nhttp://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all?content=10.1080/10286630802106383
Instrumental policies: Causes, consequences, museums and galleries
Instrumentalization has been seen to have taken place in the museums and galleries sector in Britain, and across the cultural sector as a whole. This article locates this instrumentalization in the context of changes in both the public management of goods and services within the British political system and the dominant ideologies that are used by political parties. The specific characteristics of the cultural policy sector are shown to have medi…
Commodification and Instrumentality in Cultural Policy
Cultural policy has been changing in similar ways across many countries in recent years, with these changes placing an increasing emphasis upon the use of “culture”, and particularly the “arts”, as instrumental tools for the attainment of non‐cultural, non‐arts, goals and objectives. It is argued that this process is closely related to a broader set of societal changes – specifically the establishment and acceptance of a commodified conception of…
Managing the Unmanageable: The Politics of Cultural Planning
apos;Culture ' has been increasingly seen as an important resource for the achievement of a wide variety of policy goals from those of urban regeneration to health. The extent to which such an amorphous subject as 'culture ' is actually capable of delivering the benefits that other policy arenas are
Joining-Up or Tagging On? The Arts, Cultural Planning and the View From Below
Local Government and the Arts
The arts have traditionally been seen as a minor policy concern for local authorities. Recent developments, however, have served to give the arts a new importance as a contributor to a range of policy initiatives within local government. This new importance has arisen as a result of the 'attachment' of the arts to other policy concerns. This article discusses why the arts have been utilised in this fashion and what consequences have arisen from t…
Museums and the 'new museology: Theory, Practice and Organisational Change
The widening of roles and expectations within cultural policy discourses has been a challenge to museum workers throughout Great Britain. There has been an expectation that museums are changing from an ‘old’ to a ‘new museology’ that has shaped museum functions and roles. This paper outlines the limitations of this perceived transition as museum services confront multiple exogenous and endogenous expectations, opportunities, pressures and threats…
Commodification and Instrumentality in Cultural Policy
Cultural policy has been changing in similar ways across many countries in recent years, with these changes placing an increasing emphasis upon the use of “culture”, and particularly the “arts”, as instrumental tools for the attainment of non‐cultural, non‐arts, goals and objectives. It is argued that this process is closely related to a broader set of societal changes – specifically the establishment and acceptance of a commodified conception of…
Instrumental policies: Causes, consequences, museums and galleries
Instrumentalization has been seen to have taken place in the museums and galleries sector in Britain, and across the cultural sector as a whole. This article locates this instrumentalization in the context of changes in both the public management of goods and services within the British political system and the dominant ideologies that are used by political parties. The specific characteristics of the cultural policy sector are shown to have medi…
Hyperinstrumentalism and cultural policy: Means to an end or an end to meaning
This paper investigates the implications for cultural policy of the logic of the instrumental view of culture taken to its conclusion. Policy developments that establish sets of justifications and rationales that have nothing to do with the cultural content of the policy concerned, but which arise from a deliberate realignment of policy frameworks, establish a form of hyperinstrumentalism. With hyperinstrumentalism the focus on outcomes and the e…
Managing Cultural Policy: Pitfalls and Prospects
Cultural policies have become increasingly used by governments to fulfil a large number of policy requirements. The extent to which such policies are capable of being effective in fulfilling governmental goals is open to doubt since there are considerable definitional, methodological, analytical and structural difficulties associated with such policies. This paper identifies and analyses these difficulties and indicates that considerable pitfalls…
Analysing cultural policy: Incorrigibly plural or ontologically incompatible
Approaches to the study of cultural policy are currently tied to particular disciplines. This can lead to a failure to appreciate the real differences between these disciplines in terms of what they are investigating, and how they go about these investigations. The differences that exist at ontological, epistemological and methodological levels between differing disciplines mean that it is not possible to simply adopt what each discipline is sayi…
Local government and the arts revisited
This article discusses policy developments in the arts and local government since the publication of the original article on this topic. It assesses the continued relevance of the thinking behind policy attachment in the original article for understanding and explaining policy in this sector, and indicates the direction in which the concept of policy attachment could be developed in both analytical and empirical ways
Civil Service Compensation in Indonesia
Editor's Note: This article and the following note are published in the belief that corruption is not only a moral but also an economic problem. In dealing with corruption, law enforcement is weak without moral leadership But moral leadership will be more effective if it is informed by understanding of the economics of the problem. Notes * Editor's Note: This article and the following note are published in the belief that corruption is not only a…
Are governmental culture departments important? An empirical investigation
There are many claims that the involvement of national governments with the cultural policy sector tends to err towards being undertaken reluctantly and with relatively low levels of practical support (Gray, 2009; McCall, 2009; Mulcahy, 2006; Rindzeviciute, 2008; Wyszomirski, 1999). Such a position for national governments can be explained as being a consequence of political choices to avoid accusations of state censorship or manipulation, or a l…
The political economy of the ‘recurrent cost problem’ in the West African Sahel
Understanding policy success: Rethinking public policy
Understanding policy success: rethinking public policy, by Allan McConnell, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, 288 pp., £65.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-230-23974-6, £23.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-0
Museums, Galleries, Politics and Management
Politics takes diverse forms within the museums sector, from the effect of national government policies and funding decisions to the manner in which the contents of museums are presented to the public. This diversity of political forms leads to the creation of a range of administrative and managerial contexts within which museums operate. This paper explores the relationship of political practices and administrative and managerial regimes for the…
Democratic cultural policy: Democratic forms and policy consequences
The forms that are adopted to give practical meaning to democracy are assessed to identify what their implications are for the production of public policies in general and cultural policies in particular. A comparison of direct, representative, democratic elitist and deliberative versions of democracy identifies clear differences between them in terms of policy form and democratic practice. Further elaboration of these differences and their conse…
Joining-Up or Tagging On? The Arts, Cultural Planning and the View From Below
Analysing the Adjectival Museum: Exploring the bureaucratic nature of museums and the implications for researchers and the research process
The proliferation of titles for types of museum has resulted in an adjectival explosion in recent years (with museums being engaging, relevant, professional, adaptive, community, national, universal, local, independent, people's, children's, scientific, natural history, labour, virtual, symbolic, connected, trust and charitable, amongst many other labels). This paper argues that the adoption of an organizational focus on bureaucratic features suc…
Managing the Unmanageable: The Politics of Cultural Planning
apos;Culture ' has been increasingly seen as an important resource for the achievement of a wide variety of policy goals from those of urban regeneration to health. The extent to which such an amorphous subject as 'culture ' is actually capable of delivering the benefits that other policy arenas are
State-sponsored primary health care in Africa: The recurrent cost of performing miracles
The Leadership Factor in African Policy Reform and Growth
In 1997 the World Bank’s two vice-presidents for Sub-Saharan Africa attributed a significant improvement in Africa’s growth prospects to the advent of a new generation of leaders, replacing their “once largely statist and corrupt ” predecessors. This paper begins by tracing the evolution of African chief executives over the past two decades. Of 48 holding office on 1 st January 1999, 22 were in power a decade earlier and eight already ten years b…
Culture is Digital and the shifting terrain of UK cultural policy
In this paper, a change to the remit and title of a UK government department provides a starting point for reflection on the growing role of digital technologies in the re-imagination of UK cultural policy. An early strategic report produced by the re-named DCMS was entitled Culture is Digital. Identifying the UK’s cultural and technology sectors as ‘the ultimate power couple,’ this report directs the cultural sector towards the use of technology…
Structure, Agency and Museum Policies
This paper reports on the results of recent empirical research on the interaction of structure and agency in the museums sector in England in the context of policy-making within individual museums and galleries. Policy in the museums sector is subject to a large number of political, economic, social and technological pressures and demands that are both externally and internally created: the management of these pressures and demands provides the o…
Public Enterprise in Mixed Economies: Some Macroeconomic Aspects
Cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in’ or ‘we are not a government poodle: Structure and agency in museums and galleries
Arguments within political science, public administration and public policy about how to both conceptualise and operationalise structure and agency in analysis have tended to operate at the level of ontology – and occasionally at the level of epistemology. This paper argues that development at the methodological level is required to make sense of the complexities of this debate. An analysis of how structure and agency can be applied to the museum…
On measuring the shadow price of uncommitted fiscal resources in Africa
The Jakarta Telephone Connection Charge and Financing Indonesian Telecommunications Development∗
∗ The author was an advisor to Indonesia's Ministry of Transport and Communications during 1973–76 and has observed the country's telecommunications sector sporadically since that time. He is indebted to an anonymous referee for helpful criticism of an initial draft of this article. All view expressed are the sole responsibility of the author and no endorsement by the then or current management of the Ministry or of the Harvard Institute for Inte…
Civil Service Compensation in Indonesia
Editor's Note: This article and the following note are published in the belief that corruption is not only a moral but also an economic problem. In dealing with corruption, law enforcement is weak without moral leadership But moral leadership will be more effective if it is informed by understanding of the economics of the problem. Notes * Editor's Note: This article and the following note are published in the belief that corruption is not only a…
Dépenses récurrentes et développement au Sahel
The paper summarizes the findings of a multinational study on recurrent costs which was jointly sponsored by the Permanent Inter-State Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (C.I.L.S.S.) and the Club of the Sahel between 1978 and 1980. From an analysis of 29 Sahelian development projects the study concludes that: operational shortcomings of many projects are not attributable solely or even primarily to insufficient recurrent cost financing; l…
Capital-Market Controls and Credit Rationing in Mali and Senegal
In the course of several field studies carried out during 1978-9 on behalf of the Working Group on Recurrent Costs established by the Comité Inter-états de Lutte contre la Sécheresse dans le Sahel and the Club du Sahel, it became clear that imperfect functioning of domestic capital markets hampers the efforts of Sahelian governments to raise domestic non-tax resources for budget finance. Inasmuch as the operation and maintenance of development pr…
Survey of Recent Developments
The political economy of the ‘recurrent cost problem’ in the West African Sahel
The Jakarta Telephone Connection Charge and Financing Indonesian Telecommunications Development∗
∗ The author was an advisor to Indonesia's Ministry of Transport and Communications during 1973–76 and has observed the country's telecommunications sector sporadically since that time. He is indebted to an anonymous referee for helpful criticism of an initial draft of this article. All view expressed are the sole responsibility of the author and no endorsement by the then or current management of the Ministry or of the Harvard Institute for Inte…
Public Enterprise in Mixed Economies: Some Macroeconomic Aspects
State-sponsored primary health care in Africa: The recurrent cost of performing miracles
On measuring the shadow price of uncommitted fiscal resources in Africa
Comparing cultural policy: A reformulation 1
(1996). Comparing cultural policy: A reformulation. The European Journal of Cultural Policy: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 213-222.
The Politics of the Arts in Britain
The organization and management of the arts and public-sector arts organizations in Britain have undergone major changes over the last twenty years. This book analyzes the process and politics of chan
The Leadership Factor in African Policy Reform and Growth
In 1997 the World Bank’s two vice-presidents for Sub-Saharan Africa attributed a significant improvement in Africa’s growth prospects to the advent of a new generation of leaders, replacing their “once largely statist and corrupt ” predecessors. This paper begins by tracing the evolution of African chief executives over the past two decades. Of 48 holding office on 1 st January 1999, 22 were in power a decade earlier and eight already ten years b…
Local Government and the Arts
The arts have traditionally been seen as a minor policy concern for local authorities. Recent developments, however, have served to give the arts a new importance as a contributor to a range of policy initiatives within local government. This new importance has arisen as a result of the 'attachment' of the arts to other policy concerns. This article discusses why the arts have been utilised in this fashion and what consequences have arisen from t…
Inside Independent Nigeria: Diaries of Wolfgang Stolper, 1960-1962
Cast of characters July 17-30, 1960 Arrival in Nigeria: first impressions, first tour in the countryside August 2-17, 1960 First tour of the three Regions August 18 - September 11, 1960 Visit to Benin, completion of first tour in Nigeria February 1 - March 8, 1961 Second tour begins: consultations at FAO/Rome, first meeting of Joint Planning Committee (JPC) under Chairman (Prime Minister's economic adviser) Prasad, grubbing for planning data, Gov…
Joining-Up or Tagging On? The Arts, Cultural Planning and the View From Below
Managing the Unmanageable: The Politics of Cultural Planning
apos;Culture ' has been increasingly seen as an important resource for the achievement of a wide variety of policy goals from those of urban regeneration to health. The extent to which such an amorphous subject as 'culture ' is actually capable of delivering the benefits that other policy arenas are
Commodification and Instrumentality in Cultural Policy
Cultural policy has been changing in similar ways across many countries in recent years, with these changes placing an increasing emphasis upon the use of “culture”, and particularly the “arts”, as instrumental tools for the attainment of non‐cultural, non‐arts, goals and objectives. It is argued that this process is closely related to a broader set of societal changes – specifically the establishment and acceptance of a commodified conception of…
Arts Council England and public value: A critical review
This is an electronic version of an article published in Gray, C. J. (2008) Arts council England and public value: a critical review. International Journal of Cultural Policy, 14 (2), pp. 209-214. International Journal of Cultural Policy is available online at: \nhttp://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all?content=10.1080/10286630802106383
Instrumental policies: Causes, consequences, museums and galleries
Instrumentalization has been seen to have taken place in the museums and galleries sector in Britain, and across the cultural sector as a whole. This article locates this instrumentalization in the context of changes in both the public management of goods and services within the British political system and the dominant ideologies that are used by political parties. The specific characteristics of the cultural policy sector are shown to have medi…
Managing Cultural Policy: Pitfalls and Prospects
Cultural policies have become increasingly used by governments to fulfil a large number of policy requirements. The extent to which such policies are capable of being effective in fulfilling governmental goals is open to doubt since there are considerable definitional, methodological, analytical and structural difficulties associated with such policies. This paper identifies and analyses these difficulties and indicates that considerable pitfalls…
Hugh Jenkins, The culture gap: An experience of government and the arts
Hugh Jenkins, The culture gap: an experience of government and the arts ." International Journal of Cultural Policy, 16(1), pp. 35–36
Analysing cultural policy: Incorrigibly plural or ontologically incompatible
Approaches to the study of cultural policy are currently tied to particular disciplines. This can lead to a failure to appreciate the real differences between these disciplines in terms of what they are investigating, and how they go about these investigations. The differences that exist at ontological, epistemological and methodological levels between differing disciplines mean that it is not possible to simply adopt what each discipline is sayi…
Are governmental culture departments important? An empirical investigation
There are many claims that the involvement of national governments with the cultural policy sector tends to err towards being undertaken reluctantly and with relatively low levels of practical support (Gray, 2009; McCall, 2009; Mulcahy, 2006; Rindzeviciute, 2008; Wyszomirski, 1999). Such a position for national governments can be explained as being a consequence of political choices to avoid accusations of state censorship or manipulation, or a l…
Understanding policy success: Rethinking public policy
Understanding policy success: rethinking public policy, by Allan McConnell, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, 288 pp., £65.00 (hardback), ISBN 978-0-230-23974-6, £23.99 (paperback), ISBN 978-0
Museums, Galleries, Politics and Management
Politics takes diverse forms within the museums sector, from the effect of national government policies and funding decisions to the manner in which the contents of museums are presented to the public. This diversity of political forms leads to the creation of a range of administrative and managerial contexts within which museums operate. This paper explores the relationship of political practices and administrative and managerial regimes for the…
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