A Question of Morality
Artists' Values and Public Funding for the Arts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6365545 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gregory B Lewis (0000-0003-2691-6888, Georgia Institute of Technology, corresponding author), Arthur C Brooks (Institute of Economic Affairs, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 8-17 |
| Publication date | 2005-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Public Administration Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-3352 • E-ISSN: 1540-6210 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1540-6210.2005.00426.x |
| OpenAlex | W2129845465 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 21 |
In 1989, the combination of art, religion, homosexuality, ana1 public dollars set off an explosive two-year battle and a decade of skirmishes over funding for the National Endowment for the Arts. To promote artistic freedom and to avoid political controversy, federal arts policy delegates specific funding decisions to private donors and arts professionals. In an era of morality politics—hot-button issues driven by deeply held beliefs rather than by expertise—that strategy no longer works. Artists, donors, and arts audiences diverge widely from the rest of the American public in their attitudes toward religion, sexual morality, and civil liberties, as General Social Survey data show. Delegating funding decisions to them has naturally led to some subsidies of art offensive to important segments of the population
Endowment · Homosexuality · Morality · Political science · Politics · Public morality · Sociology · Subsidy · The arts · Art History and Market Analysis · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Law · Public Administration · Social and Cultural Dynamics
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Popular Culture Informing Public Administration
Valuations of diversity
Issue Evolution
Artists as Amateurs and Volunteers
Patrons despite Themselves
The Performing Arts in a New Era
Patrons despite Themselves
Sexual Orientation and Demand for the Arts
Representative Bureaucracy and Policy Preferences
The Politics of Gay and Lesbian Rights
Trends
The Senior Executive Service
Arresting Images
Evaluating Cultural Property
Lipstick and Logarithms
American Conservatism and Government Funding of the Social Sciences and the Arts
| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,65 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2023 (18) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |