INSTRUMENTAL CULTURAL POLICIES: CAUSES, CONSEQUENCES AND MUSEUMS

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INSTRUMENTAL CULTURAL POLICIES CAUSES,
CONSEQUENCES AND MUSEUMS

• Clive Gray
• Reader in Cultural Policy
• De Montfort University

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Instrumentality in the Museums and Galleries
Sector

• MLA Strategic Priorities
• Local Government KLOE

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Defining Instrumentality

• Using culture as a means or instrument for
  attaining goals in non-cultural areas
• What sort of instrumentality?

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Sources of Instrumentalisation

• Privatisation/Commodification
• State Change NPM
• Intended/Unintended consequences
• Performance Measurement

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Problems of Managing Cultural Policy

• Definition
• Causality
• Measurement
• Attribution
• Sectoral

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Sector Specificity

• Governmental Action
• Hands-On
• Arms-Length
• Disengaged
• Political Support or the Lack of it
• Organisational Fragmentation Geographic Scale
  Reactive Lack of Definition

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Explaining Instrumentality

• Exogenous Factors
• Effects of Commodification
• Effects of State Change
• Endogenous Factors
• Attachment Strategies
• Internal Change
• Policy Choice and Management

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And the answer is

• Instrumentality as conscious policy?
• Instrumentality as consequential effect?
• Managing the process
• Assessing the results