Local government and the arts revisited

ABSTRACT

This article discusses policy developments in the arts and local government since the publication of the original article on this topic. It assesses the continued relevance of the thinking behind policy attachment in the original article for understanding and explaining policy in this sector, and indicates the direction in which the concept of policy attachment could be developed in both analytical and empirical ways.

KEYWORDS:

• The arts
• policy attachment
• policy instrumentalisation
• policy centrality

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Clive Gray

Clive Gray is Associate Professor in Cultural Policy at the Centre for Cultural Policy Studies, Warwick University. He has published widely on cultural policy and the state, researching cultural policy, and the politics of policy-making in the museums sector. His latest book is The Politics of Museums (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015).