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My Taxes Paid for That?! or Why the Past Is Prologue for Public Arts Funding

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2013

Dana Michael Harsell
Dana Michael Harsell*
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University of North Dakota
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Abstract

Recent efforts to cut public funding for the arts and culture sectors in the United States are couched in the need for balanced budgets and fiscal discipline. Lawmakers who support cuts question whether artistic pursuits such as “cowboy poetry” or artistic endeavors that offend or shock some viewers are an appropriate use of public monies in a depressed economy. While the current debate is grounded in a need for balanced budgets and reduced deficits, long-standing unresolved legacies fragment arts and culture policy and leave arts and culture funding vulnerable to additional cuts. The normative implications for the role of the arts and culture sectors in a democratic society need to be considered.

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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 46 , Issue 1 , January 2013 , pp. 74 - 80
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 2013

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