How Does Funding Arts Affect Government Spending in the 21st Century

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Who benefits from public funding of the performing arts? Comparing the art provision and the hegemony–stardom approaches

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In this paper we enquire, who does cultural policy serve? We examination the applicability of two theoretical approaches that explain the motivations that underlie public funding of the performing arts. 1 arroyo emphasizes the office of cultural policy in making the arts accessible to the wider public. The 2nd approach emphasizes how cultural policy facilitates processes of hegemony–stardom. Using data from Israel, nosotros document trends in the public funding of arts organizations in the domains of dance, orchestras, theater, and opera over a period of 48 years. Employing a fourth dimension serial analysis, we demonstrate how these trends in funding are associated with changes in level of didactics, ethnic composition, and level of income in the population. Our principal conclusion is that in terms of how funding responds to changes in instruction and income—support for the performing arts in Israel benefits the wider public. Still, in terms of how funding responds to changes in the size of ethnic groups—support for the performing arts in Israel caters to elite interests. This intricate fix of relationships is discussed in the light of the two theoretical approaches.

Highlights

► We ask who cultural policy serves, and nosotros examination two theoretical approaches. ► One arroyo stresses the office of cultural policy in providing a merit good. ► Another arroyo stresses that cultural policy facilitates hegemony and distinction. ► We document decades of public funding of trip the light fantastic, orchestras, theater, and opera. ► Arts funding in Israel both serves the public and fosters hegemony and distinction.

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Tal Feder is a PhD educatee in Sociology at the University of Haifa, Israel. His doctoral research involves a cross-national assay of the inter-relations between arts production, arts consumption, and arts policy.

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Tal Feder is a PhD student in Sociology at the Academy of Haifa, Israel. His doctoral inquiry involves a cross-national analysis of the inter-relations between arts production, arts consumption, and arts policy.

Tally Katz-Gerro is a senior lecturer in Sociology at the University of Haifa, Israel. She conducts research on comparative cultural stratification cross-nationally and cross-fourth dimension, public expenditure on arts and culture, and environmental business organisation and behavior. For more information on her inquiry, please come across http://soc.haifa.ac.il/∼tkatz.

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