Pandemic cultural policy. A comparative perspective on Covid-19 measures and their effect on cultural policies in Europe

Ole Marius Hylland*, Mira Burri, Katarina Lindblad Gidlund, Christian Handke, Arturo Rodríguez Morató, Kate Oakley, Jaka Primorac, Aleksandra Uzelac

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Abstract

To what extent did the Covid-19 pandemic affect the tools, priorities and organisation of cultural policies? And did the pandemic enhance the digital aspect of these policies? This paper compares pandemic cultural policy measures in seven European countries to answer these questions. The countries all installed a plurality of mitigating measures, combining grants and subsidies, compensation of lost income, income support and financial flexibility, creating a tendency towards cultural policy turning into economic policy, fiscal policy, and labour market policy. Cultural policies have not been fundamentally challenged by the pandemic, in the sense that it has affected the essential political tools, divisions of labour, or core goals. The responses have confirmed an existing policy structure or enhanced existing developments. The importance of a state-centred or a federalist cultural policy system has not been challenged in a substantial way. Secondly there is little evidence to show a general acceleration of national digital cultural policies.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)81-100
Number of pages20
JournalInternational Journal of Cultural Policy
Volume30
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2024

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Funding
The work was supported by the The Research Council of Norway [301502].

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