Arts of the states in crisis–Revisiting determinants of state-level appropriations to arts agencies

Noonan, Douglas S.

doi:10.1016/j.poetic.2015.02.002

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“…Public funding of the arts and culture also has had a positive impact for disaster recovery efforts after September 11, Hurricane Katrina (see, for example, National Institute for Conservation 2005), and the rebuilding of the collapsed I35 Bridge in Minneapolis. Moreover, much like the “cultural outreach” that was used during the Cold War era, artistic endeavors can help enhance and repair the US image abroad after its ongoing presence in Iraq and Afghanistan (Noonan 2005).…”

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My Taxes Paid for That?! or Why the Past Is Prologue for Public Arts Funding

Harsell

2013

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Recent efforts to cut public funding for the arts and culture sectors in the United States are couched in the need for balanced budgets and fiscal discipline. Lawmakers who support cuts question whether artistic pursuits such as “cowboy poetry” or artistic endeavors that offend or shock some viewers are an appropriate use of public monies in a depressed economy. While the current debate is grounded in a need for balanced budgets and reduced deficits, long-standing unresolved legacies fragment arts and culture policy and leave arts and culture funding vulnerable to additional cuts. The normative implications for the role of the arts and culture sectors in a democratic society need to be considered.

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My Taxes Paid for That?! or Why the Past Is Prologue for Public Arts Funding

Harsell

2013

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“…Caution is warranted in looking for a well-defined strategic rationale in US state-level arts policy. Noonan (2007Noonan ( , 2015 and Lewis and Rushton (2007) find that incomeand in turn, tax base -is the primary explanatory variable for state arts spending (in this issue, Getzner, 2015 finds the same regarding public cultural spending in Austrian states). This suggests that spending is based more on a consistent proportion of state revenue rather than in opportunities for strategic investment.…”

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Cultural districts and economic development in American cities

Rushton

2015

Poetics

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“…The cultural spending of municipalities is particularly sensitive to the financial resources of the municipalities since, for instance, subsidies might easily be reduced in times of fiscal stress. Municipal debt as well as the 'cash flow' (free financial resources) of municipalities has proven to have significant influence on cultural spending (e.g., Noonan, 2015;Schulze & Rose, 1998).…”

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Socio-economic and spatial determinants of municipal cultural spending

Getzner

2021

J Cult Econ

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The determinants of the expenditure of Austrian municipalities for cultural affairs are ascertained in a panel time series framework. The Austrian municipalities spend about € 93 per capita a year for cultural affairs (approximately 4% of the total municipal expenditure). The econometric estimations revealed that the size of the municipality, and various socio-economic, fiscal and political variables, are the main determinants of municipal cultural spending. The results of the estimations infer a rather small but nevertheless significant spatial dependence of cultural spending. An increase of 10% of cultural spending in the neighboring regions leads to an increase of 0.6–1.5% in a representative municipality (however, the potentially overlapping and contradicting reasons for spatial correlations could not be disentangled in this paper). In comparison to the spatial effects, the size of the municipality is a more significant predictor of municipal cultural spending. The larger cities provide many cultural goods and services to the surrounding areas by utilizing economies of scale and density. It can be concluded that municipalities, in particular in rural areas, should increase their efforts for co-operation in order to improve the efficiency of cultural spending.

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Arts of the states in crisis–Revisiting determinants of state-level appropriations to arts agencies

Cited by 14 publications

References 14 publications

My Taxes Paid for That?! or Why the Past Is Prologue for Public Arts Funding

My Taxes Paid for That?! or Why the Past Is Prologue for Public Arts Funding

Cultural districts and economic development in American cities

Socio-economic and spatial determinants of municipal cultural spending

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