The popular, the diverse and the excellent

Political values and UK cultural policy

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12340366
AutoresJ Street (0000-0001-9650-063X, University of East Anglia, autor correspondente)
Ano2011
Volume17
Fascículo4
Páginas380-393
Data de publicação2011-08-16
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInternational Journal of Cultural Policy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1028-6632 • E-ISSN: 1477-2833
EditoraRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10286632.2010.546839
OpenAlexW1977091114
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas11

This article is about the political values that underpin cultural policy in the UK. In particular, it explores the politics behind the competing goals set for cultural policy and how politicians negotiate the rival appeals of promoting excellence and enabling diversity, while still claiming to represent the people. It focuses upon two important New Labour pronouncements on cultural policy, Tessa Jowell's Government and the Value of Culture and Brian McMaster's Supporting Excellence in the Arts: From Measurement to Judgement. These both argue for making ‘excellence’, as opposed to ‘diversity’, the central value for cultural policy. Drawing on the arguments of Brian Barry, Bhikhu Parekh and Ronald Dworkin, the article looks at how ideas of diversity, excellence and the popular form part of contrasting political ideologies, values and practices, and at what is at stake in choosing between them

Cultural policy · Diversity (politics · Embarrassment · Environmental ethics · Excellence · Government (linguistics · Ideology · Judgement · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · The arts · Value (mathematics · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Psychology · Public Administration · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Psychology