Deconstructing a Tower of Babel

Privatisation, decentralisation and devolution as ideas in good currency in cultural policy

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12249686
AutoresJohannes Schuster (0000-0003-2252-5062, autor correspondente), J Mark Schuster
Ano1997
Volume8
Fascículo3
Páginas261-282
Data de publicação1997-09-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoVoluntas Revista Internacional de Filosofia (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2179-3786 • E-ISSN: 1573-7888
EditoraSpringer Science+Business Media (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1007/bf02354200
OpenAlexW2027675382
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas9
Referências citadas8

Privatisation, decentralisation and devolution are three ideas in good currency that have permeated the debate on cultural policy over the past fifteen years. They are typically used as if there were a broad consensus as to their meanings and implications, but, in fact, these three words stand in for a much more complicated set of views and understandings of appropriate directions to take in cultural policy. This article considers the various motivations for each of these inter-related ideas and demonstrates that a precise and nuanced knowledge of policy intent is critical to understanding their implications for policy. Whatever words are used to describe a particular place's cultural policy, if the intent of that policy is concealed, intentionally or unintentionally, in a vocabulary whose implications are neither clearly spelled out nor fully appreciated, it will be impossible to know exactly what is to be done and how it is to be judged

Cultural policy · Currency · Decentralization · Devolution (biology · Economics · Linguistics · Political economy · Political science · Set (abstract data type · Sociology · Tower of Babel · Vocabulary · Computer Science · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · History · Law · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering · Public Policy and Administration Research