The arts and state governments at arm's length or arm in arm?
Even though a majority of Americans claim to support public funding of the arts, state government spending on the arts is minimal--and may be losing ground relative to other types of state expenditures. Moreover, most state arts agencies, or SAAs, have not succeeded in convincing state government le...
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Santa Monica, CA
RAND Corp.
2006, 2006
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- Research approach
- Report overview
- 2. At arms-length
- SAAS governance structure and decisionmaking processes
- Advocacy
- Insulation or isolation?
- 3. Catalysts for change
- Budgetary trends
- Political developments
- 4. Making the case for the arts in Montana
- Brief history of the Montana Arts Council
- Montana's new strategy : marketing the arts and the agency
- 5. New priorities for public arts funding in Maine
- Brief history of the Maine Arts Commission
- Maine's strategy : strengthening communities, strengthening alliances
- 6. Strategic management of state arts agencies
- Public-value framework
- Lessons from Montana and Maine
- Relevance of lessons to other states
- Arm in arm with state government leaders?
- 7. At arms-length
- but dancing
- Risks of arm-in-arm approaches
- Rewards of arm-in-arm approaches
- Appendix A. Some facts about state arts agencies
- Appendix B. Montana Arts Council's listening tour
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 59-68)