Cultural Policy - (Politics and Public Policy) by Diane Saint-Pierre & Monica Gattinger

About the Book

Cultural Policy: Origins, Evolution, and Implementation in Canada's Provinces and Territories offers a comprehensive synthesis of the history of subnational cultural policies, including governments' institutionalization and instrumentalization of culture, and the development, dissemination, and impact of cultural policy interventions.

Book Synopsis

How do Canadian provincial and territorial governments intervene in the cultural and artistic lives of their citizens? What changes and influences shaped the origin of these policies and their implementation? On what foundations were policies based, and on what foundations are they based today? How have governments defined the concepts of culture and of cultural policy over time? What are the objectives and outcomes of their policies, and what instruments do they use to pursue them?

Answers to these questions are multiple and complex, partly as a result of the unique historical context of each province and territory, and partly because of the various objectives of successive governments, and the values and identities of their citizens.

Cultural Policy: Origins, Evolution, and Implementation in Canada's Provinces and Territories offers a comprehensive history of subnational cultural policies, including the institutionalization and instrumentalization of culture by provincial and territorial governments; government cultural objectives and outcomes; the role of departments, Crown corporations, other government organizations, and major public institutions in the cultural domain; and the development, dissemination, and impact of subnational cultural policy interventions.

Review Quotes

"This innovative and systematic academic work is quite simply masterful. Cultural Policy is exceptional in its scope and detailed analyses. A must-have reference in all bibliographies on cultural institutions."

• Claude Martin, Honorary Professor Department of Communication, Université de Montréal

About the Author

Monica Gattinger is Director of the University of Ottawa's Institute for Science, Society and Policy, Full Professor at uOttawa's School of Political Studies, and Chair of Positive Energy. Her research explores Canadian cultural policy and energy policy in domestic and international perspective.