The Subsidized Muse: Government and the Arts in Western Europe and the United States

Annette Zimmer and Stefan Toepler

Journal of Cultural Economics, 1999, vol. 23, issue 1, 33-49

Abstract: Using the neo-classical justifications for government support of the arts that Dick Netzer discussed in The Subsidized Muse as a starting point, the article contends that market failure is not an useful concept to understand and explain cultural policies and the degree of government involvement, particularly when viewed from a comparative perspective. The basic fault is that historical- institutional arrangements and the role of non-state actors in the formation of cultural policies are not taken into account. Discussing some aspects of the institutional framework in the development of French, Swedish and U.S. cultural policies, the article concludes with a call for the use of neo-institutionalist perspectives in analyzing government intervention in the arts field. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 1999

Keywords: cultural policy; neo-institutionalism; market failure; cross-national research; welfare state (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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