License to judge

Fleshing out expertise in cultural policy

Bibliographic Data

ID12340243
AuthorsKamila Lewandowska (0000-0002-2189-239X, Aleksander Zelwerowicz National Academy of Dramatic Art in Warsaw, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume25
Issue3
Pages337-349
Publication date2017-01-27
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of Cultural Policy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1028-6632 • E-ISSN: 1477-2833
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10286632.2017.1285288
OpenAlexW2580555910
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited39

This paper endeavours to examine different types of expertise in cultural policy. Unlike other conceptual studies, it focuses on the abstract notion of expertise i.e. the different forms of cognition and knowledge deployed in cultural policy, rather than the personage of an expert. The article proposes a distinction between arts expertise and technocratic expertise and employs five analytical categories within which they are discussed and compared with each other. Although a clear-cut differentiation seems impossible to achieve, the binary approach helps to shed light on how different forms of expert judgement in cultural policy can be framed and legitimised as well as how vulnerable they are to political influence and the concomitant pressure of the democratisation of policy-making

Cultural policy · Democracy · Democratization · Economics · Epistemology · Judgement · License · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Sociology · Technocracy · The arts · Artistic and Creative Research · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Global Educational Policies and Reforms · Law

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