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Research paper thumbnail of Shaping a triple-bottom line for nonprofit arts organizations: Micro-, macro-, and meta-policy influences

Cultural Trends, Dec 1, 2013

The literature on the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) tends to concentrate on the politics ... more The literature on the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) tends to concentrate on the politics of arts funding or on micro-policy development through individual programs. This article aims to reveal the evolution of agency-wide macro-policy that was undertaken by NEA Chairs acting strategically as policy entrepreneurs in adapting policy goals in response to changes in the political and socio-economic context. This process of policy evolution gradually shaped and institutionalized a triple-bottom line for its organizational grantees – financial sustainability, artistic vitality, and recognized public value. Through legitimation processes in which the agency and the arts community cooperated, these values became field standards and best practices, a meta-policy that influenced all nonprofit arts organizations in the USA. Using policy documents, research reports, the memoirs of NEA chairmen, and journalistic coverage, this article investigates how cultural policy at the micro-, macro-, and meta-levels interacted to shape the triple-bottom line through the policy entrepreneurship of NEA chairs.

Research paper thumbnail of Researching the Arts

Journal of Nonprofit Management and Leadership, 1993

Research paper thumbnail of Balfe and MJW JAMLS 1986 Public Art and Public Policy

Journal of arts management, law and society, 1986

Research paper thumbnail of At The Margins: Presidential Leadership in Congress

American Political Science Review, Sep 1, 1990

Research paper thumbnail of The Arts and Performance Review, Policy Assessment, and Program Evaluation: Focusing on the Ends of the Policy Cycle

Journal of Arts Management Law and Society, 1998

Page 1. The Arts and Performance Review, Policy Assessment, and Program Evaluation: Focusing on t... more Page 1. The Arts and Performance Review, Policy Assessment, and Program Evaluation: Focusing on the Ends of the Policy Cycle MARGARET JANE WYSZOMIRSKI nalysts often think of policy as a multistep process that begins ...

Research paper thumbnail of The public life of the arts in America

Rutgers University Press eBooks, 2000

... ISBN 0-8135-2767-8 (cloth: alk. paper)—ISBN 0-8135-2768-6 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Arts and soci... more ... ISBN 0-8135-2767-8 (cloth: alk. paper)—ISBN 0-8135-2768-6 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Arts and society—United States—History—20th century. I. Series. II. Cherbo, Joni Maya, 1941-III. Wyszomirski, Margaret Jane. NX180. S6 P83 2000 700'. ...

Research paper thumbnail of The Arts and Arts Policy: Issues of Work, Money, and Power

Contemporary Sociology, Jul 1, 1990

Research paper thumbnail of Art, Ideology, and Politics

Contemporary Sociology, May 1, 1986

Research paper thumbnail of The Local Creative Economy in the United States of America

SAGE Publications Ltd eBooks, 2008

Research paper thumbnail of Federal Cultural Support: Toward a New Paradigm?

Journal of Arts Management Law and Society, Mar 1, 1995

Research paper thumbnail of 3. Field Building: The Road to Cultural Policy Studies in the United States

Rutgers University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2020

Research paper thumbnail of A U.S. Department of Cultural Resources? Implications for Arts Education Policy

Design for Arts in Education, Apr 1, 1990

Research paper thumbnail of Introduction: Political Culture and Cultural Policy

Journal of Arts Management Law and Society, Oct 1, 1996

Research paper thumbnail of Designing cultural diplomacy policy: structuring a flagship mechanism

International Journal of Cultural Policy, Aug 10, 2022

Cultural diplomacy (CD) research has focused on various elements of practice, such as the context... more Cultural diplomacy (CD) research has focused on various elements of practice, such as the contexts, rationales, players, and methods. However, research explaining the interrelationships among such elements of CD is less common. This scarcity can inhibit an effective and accurate evaluation of CD programs. This article, by acknowledging the significance of this gap and being informed by policy design theory and foreign policy analysis (FPA), constructs a framework to articulate a policy design approach by focusing on comparative cases of flagship mechanisms of CD. It specifically considers flagships characterized by having a persistent presence, formal authorization, and global scope, which represents a structural approach to CD design that is aiming for a holistic view that addresses multiple purposes and is capable of adapting to particular international environments. To explain how this structural mechanism works, this article focuses on the practices of the United States, the United Kingdom, and China as they provide rich empirical data and concrete international and domestic contexts that can be used to interpret and apply the policy design and FPA concepts presented in the analytical framework. The conclusions point to the value of the interdisciplinary analytical concepts blended and potential transferability of the flagship mechanism.

Research paper thumbnail of Arts Policymaking and Interest-Group Politics

The Journal of Aesthetic Education, Oct 1, 1980

Page 1. 28 KEVIN V. MULCAHY ET AL. Arts," Social Research, Summer 1978, pp. 356-89; and Andr... more Page 1. 28 KEVIN V. MULCAHY ET AL. Arts," Social Research, Summer 1978, pp. 356-89; and Andrew Glass, "She's an Artist at Getting Money for the Arts," New York Times, 14 December 1975, sec. D, p. 32. 13. C. Richard ...

Research paper thumbnail of Profiles of Cultural Support: An Overview

Journal of Arts Management Law and Society, 2002

ore Americans attend arts events each year; the number of arts organiM zations and employed artis... more ore Americans attend arts events each year; the number of arts organiM zations and employed artists is increasing, and public investment in the arts is estimated at $3 billion. Yet despite being deeply embedded in communities and in the lives of citizens, the financial dimensions of the arts are little understood by policymakers or the general public. Unlike many spheres of American society (education, health, or the environment, for example), the arts and cultural sector (referred throughout this article as “the sector”) suffers from a dearth of reliable, intelligible, and comparable information-the critical ingredients for effective policy development. Such data and information provide a “common currency” of language for public policymakers, individual donors, corporate donors, private philanthropies, and industry professionals alike, enabling meaningful dialogue about the societal value of the arts, access to the arts, and support of the arts. The National and Local Profiles of Cultural Support Project contributes a new and fundamental tool to the arts policy discussion-research-based benchmarks of the patterns and sources of financial support to nonprofit arts organizations.’ It is also the first attempt to look closely at separate parts of the sector-for example, examining service and support organizations as distinct from producing and presenting organizations. To answer the question, How is the arts and cultural sector supported in the United States? the study collected data from nonprofit arts organizations about 22 public, private, and earned-revenue categories. The researchers analyzed the data from national,

Research paper thumbnail of New Directions in Arts and Cultural Policy: Forward by the Editors

Review of Policy Research, Jul 1, 2004

Research paper thumbnail of Where Do We Go From Here? The Future of Support for the Arts and Humanities

Journal of Arts Management Law and Society, Jul 1, 1996

Research paper thumbnail of Comparing Cultural Policies in the United States and Japan: Preliminary Observations

Journal of Arts Management Law and Society, 1998

Page 1. Comparing Cultural Policies in the United States and Japan: Preliminary Observations MARG... more Page 1. Comparing Cultural Policies in the United States and Japan: Preliminary Observations MARGARET JANE WYSZOMIRSKI n The Patron Stute. a comparative study of arts policy in thirteen nations, I editors Milton C. Cummings Jr. and Richard Katz concluded, “Every ...

Research paper thumbnail of Improving Education in International Cultural Policy and Administration

Journal of Arts Management Law and Society, 2007

Patricia Dewey is assistant professor in the University of Oregon's Arts and Administration ... more Patricia Dewey is assistant professor in the University of Oregon's Arts and Administration Program and serves as associate director for cultural policy with the revitalized UO Center for Community Arts and Cultural Policy. She also is book review editor for JAMLS. Margaret Jane ...

Research paper thumbnail of Shaping a triple-bottom line for nonprofit arts organizations: Micro-, macro-, and meta-policy influences

Cultural Trends, Dec 1, 2013

The literature on the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) tends to concentrate on the politics ... more The literature on the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) tends to concentrate on the politics of arts funding or on micro-policy development through individual programs. This article aims to reveal the evolution of agency-wide macro-policy that was undertaken by NEA Chairs acting strategically as policy entrepreneurs in adapting policy goals in response to changes in the political and socio-economic context. This process of policy evolution gradually shaped and institutionalized a triple-bottom line for its organizational grantees – financial sustainability, artistic vitality, and recognized public value. Through legitimation processes in which the agency and the arts community cooperated, these values became field standards and best practices, a meta-policy that influenced all nonprofit arts organizations in the USA. Using policy documents, research reports, the memoirs of NEA chairmen, and journalistic coverage, this article investigates how cultural policy at the micro-, macro-, and meta-levels interacted to shape the triple-bottom line through the policy entrepreneurship of NEA chairs.

Research paper thumbnail of Researching the Arts

Journal of Nonprofit Management and Leadership, 1993

Research paper thumbnail of Balfe and MJW JAMLS 1986 Public Art and Public Policy

Journal of arts management, law and society, 1986

Research paper thumbnail of At The Margins: Presidential Leadership in Congress

American Political Science Review, Sep 1, 1990

Research paper thumbnail of The Arts and Performance Review, Policy Assessment, and Program Evaluation: Focusing on the Ends of the Policy Cycle

Journal of Arts Management Law and Society, 1998

Page 1. The Arts and Performance Review, Policy Assessment, and Program Evaluation: Focusing on t... more Page 1. The Arts and Performance Review, Policy Assessment, and Program Evaluation: Focusing on the Ends of the Policy Cycle MARGARET JANE WYSZOMIRSKI nalysts often think of policy as a multistep process that begins ...

Research paper thumbnail of The public life of the arts in America

Rutgers University Press eBooks, 2000

... ISBN 0-8135-2767-8 (cloth: alk. paper)—ISBN 0-8135-2768-6 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Arts and soci... more ... ISBN 0-8135-2767-8 (cloth: alk. paper)—ISBN 0-8135-2768-6 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Arts and society—United States—History—20th century. I. Series. II. Cherbo, Joni Maya, 1941-III. Wyszomirski, Margaret Jane. NX180. S6 P83 2000 700'. ...

Research paper thumbnail of The Arts and Arts Policy: Issues of Work, Money, and Power

Contemporary Sociology, Jul 1, 1990

Research paper thumbnail of Art, Ideology, and Politics

Contemporary Sociology, May 1, 1986

Research paper thumbnail of The Local Creative Economy in the United States of America

SAGE Publications Ltd eBooks, 2008

Research paper thumbnail of Federal Cultural Support: Toward a New Paradigm?

Journal of Arts Management Law and Society, Mar 1, 1995

Research paper thumbnail of 3. Field Building: The Road to Cultural Policy Studies in the United States

Rutgers University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2020

Research paper thumbnail of A U.S. Department of Cultural Resources? Implications for Arts Education Policy

Design for Arts in Education, Apr 1, 1990

Research paper thumbnail of Introduction: Political Culture and Cultural Policy

Journal of Arts Management Law and Society, Oct 1, 1996

Research paper thumbnail of Designing cultural diplomacy policy: structuring a flagship mechanism

International Journal of Cultural Policy, Aug 10, 2022

Cultural diplomacy (CD) research has focused on various elements of practice, such as the context... more Cultural diplomacy (CD) research has focused on various elements of practice, such as the contexts, rationales, players, and methods. However, research explaining the interrelationships among such elements of CD is less common. This scarcity can inhibit an effective and accurate evaluation of CD programs. This article, by acknowledging the significance of this gap and being informed by policy design theory and foreign policy analysis (FPA), constructs a framework to articulate a policy design approach by focusing on comparative cases of flagship mechanisms of CD. It specifically considers flagships characterized by having a persistent presence, formal authorization, and global scope, which represents a structural approach to CD design that is aiming for a holistic view that addresses multiple purposes and is capable of adapting to particular international environments. To explain how this structural mechanism works, this article focuses on the practices of the United States, the United Kingdom, and China as they provide rich empirical data and concrete international and domestic contexts that can be used to interpret and apply the policy design and FPA concepts presented in the analytical framework. The conclusions point to the value of the interdisciplinary analytical concepts blended and potential transferability of the flagship mechanism.

Research paper thumbnail of Arts Policymaking and Interest-Group Politics

The Journal of Aesthetic Education, Oct 1, 1980

Page 1. 28 KEVIN V. MULCAHY ET AL. Arts," Social Research, Summer 1978, pp. 356-89; and Andr... more Page 1. 28 KEVIN V. MULCAHY ET AL. Arts," Social Research, Summer 1978, pp. 356-89; and Andrew Glass, "She's an Artist at Getting Money for the Arts," New York Times, 14 December 1975, sec. D, p. 32. 13. C. Richard ...

Research paper thumbnail of Profiles of Cultural Support: An Overview

Journal of Arts Management Law and Society, 2002

ore Americans attend arts events each year; the number of arts organiM zations and employed artis... more ore Americans attend arts events each year; the number of arts organiM zations and employed artists is increasing, and public investment in the arts is estimated at $3 billion. Yet despite being deeply embedded in communities and in the lives of citizens, the financial dimensions of the arts are little understood by policymakers or the general public. Unlike many spheres of American society (education, health, or the environment, for example), the arts and cultural sector (referred throughout this article as “the sector”) suffers from a dearth of reliable, intelligible, and comparable information-the critical ingredients for effective policy development. Such data and information provide a “common currency” of language for public policymakers, individual donors, corporate donors, private philanthropies, and industry professionals alike, enabling meaningful dialogue about the societal value of the arts, access to the arts, and support of the arts. The National and Local Profiles of Cultural Support Project contributes a new and fundamental tool to the arts policy discussion-research-based benchmarks of the patterns and sources of financial support to nonprofit arts organizations.’ It is also the first attempt to look closely at separate parts of the sector-for example, examining service and support organizations as distinct from producing and presenting organizations. To answer the question, How is the arts and cultural sector supported in the United States? the study collected data from nonprofit arts organizations about 22 public, private, and earned-revenue categories. The researchers analyzed the data from national,

Research paper thumbnail of New Directions in Arts and Cultural Policy: Forward by the Editors

Review of Policy Research, Jul 1, 2004

Research paper thumbnail of Where Do We Go From Here? The Future of Support for the Arts and Humanities

Journal of Arts Management Law and Society, Jul 1, 1996

Research paper thumbnail of Comparing Cultural Policies in the United States and Japan: Preliminary Observations

Journal of Arts Management Law and Society, 1998

Page 1. Comparing Cultural Policies in the United States and Japan: Preliminary Observations MARG... more Page 1. Comparing Cultural Policies in the United States and Japan: Preliminary Observations MARGARET JANE WYSZOMIRSKI n The Patron Stute. a comparative study of arts policy in thirteen nations, I editors Milton C. Cummings Jr. and Richard Katz concluded, “Every ...

Research paper thumbnail of Improving Education in International Cultural Policy and Administration

Journal of Arts Management Law and Society, 2007

Patricia Dewey is assistant professor in the University of Oregon's Arts and Administration ... more Patricia Dewey is assistant professor in the University of Oregon's Arts and Administration Program and serves as associate director for cultural policy with the revitalized UO Center for Community Arts and Cultural Policy. She also is book review editor for JAMLS. Margaret Jane ...