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New Directions in Cultural Policy Research
This book investigates the role of arts practitioners in the formation and
implementation of cultural policy. In so doing, it challenges a still-recurrent
perception that practitioners have little or no involvement in cultural pol-
icy activity. The perception is apparent in cultural policy research litera-
ture—as will be illustrated in the next chapter—as well as being encountered
on an anecdotal level.1 Their role is explored here both as a general con-
cern for cultural policy studies and in the specifc arena of British cultural
policy, with particular reference to policies on new playwriting for the
theatre in England. To use a theatre analogy, the study investigates
whether, on the ‘stage’ of cultural policy activity, arts workers have the
marginal position of spear-carriers2 or, instead, might be in the spotlight
with signifcant speaking roles.
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