The Moral Foundations of Public Funding for the Arts, by Michael Rushton

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Notes

1 In the U.S., most public funding for the arts is delivered in the form of tax expenditure entailed by tax deduction. Moreover, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is not an arm’s length arts council; it is an agency of the U.S. government with intentionally limited autonomy (see Binkiewicz 2004). NEA funding decisions do include peer review, but only over a quite narrow array of decisions; those decisions can and have been overruled by both administrators and legislators.