Arts councils, policy-making and “the local”

Durrer, Victoria; Gilmore, Abigail; Stevenson, David

doi:10.1080/09548963.2019.1644795

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“…Second, as a mainstay of the visitor economy, not least for the promotion of both domestic and inbound tourism, events fall broadly within the portfolio of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DDCMS) in the central UK government at Westminster. Nevertheless, while DDCMS provides oversight, the day-to-day regulation, governance and administration of arts and culture (Durrer et al, 2019 ) as well as tourism and leisure, including events [Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), 2020b ], is a devolved responsibility. This means that the governments in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland set their own agendas, priorities and arrangements independently from Westminster which acts as a proxy for England (i.e., the largest component of the UK by population).…”

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Experiencing Event Management During the Coronavirus Pandemic: A Public Sector Perspective

Coles

Garcia

O'Malley

et al. 2022

Front. Sports Act. Living

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Events have played a significant role in the way in which the Coronavirus pandemic has been experienced and known around the world. Little is known though about how the pandemic has impacted on supporting, managing and governing events in municipal (i.e., local) authorities as key stakeholders, nor how events have featured in the opening-up of localities. This paper reports on empirical research with senior events officers for local authorities in the UK on these key knowledge gaps. Specifically, it examines events officers' unfolding experiences of the pandemic. The paper points to unpreparedness for a crisis of this scale and magnitude, and the roles of innovation, adaptation and co-production in the emergent response. It highlights the transformative nature of the pandemic through reconsiderations of the purpose of public sector involvement in events and, from a policy perspective, how relatively smaller-scale, more agile and lower-risk arts events and performances can figure in local recovery. Finally, while the effects on, and response of, the body corporate (the local authority) to crises is an obvious focus, it is important to recognise those of the individuals who manage the response and drive change.

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Experiencing Event Management During the Coronavirus Pandemic: A Public Sector Perspective

Coles

Garcia

O'Malley

et al. 2022

Front. Sports Act. Living

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“…The systems model suggests that there is a policy and or policies that is/are depicted as an output of the political system. For example, LGs are symbolic of the peoples' institution for policy formulation, elected by the majority (Durrer, Gilmore & Stevenson, 2019). However, both the elected and appointed officials within these structures may not represent the outcome of the political system.…”

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Integrated policy formulation processes in local governments: A case study in mid-western Uganda

Mwesigwa¹,

Bogere²,

Anastassova³

2021

jgas

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Purpose: This study set out to assess the level of policy formulation in Hoima district local government for effective service delivery in Uganda. Research methodology: A quantitative case study design was embraced, aiming at 30 local councillors and 60 technical officials. The real sample was 54 respondents. Data were gathered via a self-administered questionnaire and an interview guide. Numerical and non-numerical data were examined by way of descriptive statistics as well as thematic analysis. Results: Results suggest a moderate mean for policy formulation in Hoima as generated from all the five constructs namely; problem identification (µ=2.88; SD= 1.346), problem manifesto (µ=2.76; SD =1.347), policy agenda (µ=2.17; SD =1.268), policy debate (µ=2.58; SD =1.271) and policy decision (µ=2.20; SD =1.268). This was so because the overall mean was 2.52 and the overall SD was 1.300. Nevertheless, the numerous impediments confronted mainly at policy decision disrupted the process. Limitations: The study concentrated on one local government in Uganda and so the results may not be generalised to Uganda. Contribution: These results might be used as contributions for local governments in Uganda to evolve a guide on integrating policy formulation issues during orientation and or retooling local councillors and technical officials for better policy formulation processes. This article contributes to the budding understanding by underlining undertones in policy formulation so that local governments become more efficient in delivering services to the citizenry.

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“…Questions have been raised around how national cultural bodies conceptualise and understand the 'local' (Durrer, Gilmore & Stevenson, 2019) but what could be argued is different about film engagement, is the relative ubiquity of a narrow range of mainstream theatrical film. Approaches to understanding and developing local film exhibition differ across the nations of the UK.…”

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Inequalities in Regional Film Exhibition: Policy, Place and Audiences

Merrington¹,

Hanchard²,

Wessels³

2021

Journal of British Cinema and Television

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This article questions the variety of film exhibition in four English regions. While a regional and national frame is the focus of cultural policy in relation to film audience development in the UK, our analysis examines relational, localised and sub-regional film cultures in order to understand how differing levels of film exhibition influence people's sense of place. This is framed within a discussion of cultural inequality more generally. In the UK, questions of engagement with different types of film exhibition have gained greater prominence recently, but there has been limited attention paid to how audiences understand their geographic relationship with film exhibition. Drawing on 200 semi-structured, qualitative interviews with a wide range of film viewers across four English regions, the North East, North West, South West and Yorkshire and the Humber, we assess perceptions of film exhibition in these regions. In doing so, we characterise five different modes of place in relation to the breadth of film exhibition, from distinctive film cities to mainstream multiplex towns. In particular, we focus on how access to film is simultaneously narrated through both localised proximity to cinemas of different types and virtual access to film through online platforms. This work provides further evidence of the uneven provision of diverse film in England but shows how film audiences relationally interpret their engagement within film as a cultural form.

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Arts councils, policy-making and “the local”

Cited by 10 publications

References 19 publications

Experiencing Event Management During the Coronavirus Pandemic: A Public Sector Perspective

Experiencing Event Management During the Coronavirus Pandemic: A Public Sector Perspective

Integrated policy formulation processes in local governments: A case study in mid-western Uganda

Inequalities in Regional Film Exhibition: Policy, Place and Audiences

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