Cultural Policy and Subjective Well-Being in Mexico

ABSTRACT

This article compares the notions of subjective well-being—which has been underscored as an aim for public policy—and optimism, studied by Oliver Bennett as an implicit cultural policy. It will give an overview of the high level of subjective well-being in Mexico according to several recent surveys and consider the relation that culture and arts have with subjective well-being in different countries. This will help to frame the proposal that happiness and life satisfaction could be promoted in Mexico through arts management and cultural policy.

KEYWORDS:

• Arts management
• cultural policy
• Mexico
• optimism
• subjective well-being

Notes

1. The publications are: Atlas de Infraestructura Cultural (CONACULTA 2003, 2010a); Encuesta Nacional de Lectura (CONACULTA INEGI 2006; CONACULTA 2015); Diagnóstico de Infraestructura Cultural (CONACULTA 2007); Estadísticas Básicas de la Cultura (CONACULTA 2008); Encuesta Nacional de Hábitos, Prácticas y Consumo Culturales (CONACULTA 2010b); Encuesta Nacional de Consumo Cultural de México (CONACULTA INEGI 2012); Encuesta a Públicos de Museos 2007–2008 (Silva and Vázquez 2008); and Análisis del Estudio de Público del Museo Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso 2010–2014 (Vázquez 2016).

Additional information

Funding

This work was supported by UNAM-PAPIIT under grant [IN405116].