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SPEAKING PUBLIC FUNDING INTO EXISTENCE: Tracking the National Endowment for the Arts' Use of Cultural Economic Rationales to Advocate for Public Support

Heidelberg, Brea M.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1253501768

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2009, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, Arts Policy and Administration.
In this thesis, I track use of cultural economic rationales employed by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to secure public funding. I conducted a content and discourse analysis of Appropriations Hearings in both the House and Senate Appropriations Committees for FY 1967, FY 1982, and FY 1997 and articles from the Journal of Cultural Economics. My methodology, based on Focault’s policy geneology and Kingdon’s policy streams, helped explain how the NEA discusses and argues for public funding in a policy arena via the use of theories derived from cultural economics scholarship. The results show that depicting the arts as a public good was an overarching theme in the problem stream, with supporting arguments changing due to circumstances in the political or policy streams. This work has implications for how arts advocates can continue define and articulate their desire for increased public funding using the work of cultural economists.
Margaret Wyszomirski, PhD (Committee Chair)
Wayne Lawson, PhD (Committee Member)
194 p.
Communication; Economic Theory; Economics; Fine Arts; Linguistics; Political Science; Public Administration; Rhetoric
Discourse Analysis; Kingdon's policy streams; Foucault; National Endowment for the Arts; Cultural Economics; Journal of Cultural Economics; Public Funding for the Arts; Public Good; Arts Advocacy; Cultural Economists

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  • Heidelberg, B. M. (2009). SPEAKING PUBLIC FUNDING INTO EXISTENCE: Tracking the National Endowment for the Arts' Use of Cultural Economic Rationales to Advocate for Public Support [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1253501768

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Heidelberg, Brea. SPEAKING PUBLIC FUNDING INTO EXISTENCE: Tracking the National Endowment for the Arts' Use of Cultural Economic Rationales to Advocate for Public Support. 2009. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1253501768.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Heidelberg, Brea. "SPEAKING PUBLIC FUNDING INTO EXISTENCE: Tracking the National Endowment for the Arts' Use of Cultural Economic Rationales to Advocate for Public Support." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1253501768

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