Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- What Is Culture? -- What Is Policy? -- Policy and Administration -- 1 A (Very) Short History of the Development of National Cultural Policy in the United States -- The Culture Agenda: Prewar/Cold War -- Philanthropy and Cultural Policy -- Social Elites and Cultural Consensus -- A National Cultural Center -- A Federal Arts Policy -- The National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act (1965) -- The Historic Preservation Act (1966) -- The Public Broadcasting Act (1967) -- 2 What Is Cultural Policy? -- Norms -- A Challenge -- A Rationale -- Goals -- 3 The Cultural Bureaucracy -- The Policy Arena -- Cultural Bureaucracy on the National Level -- On the Sub-National Level -- On the Local Level -- Policy Lab 3: The Federal Role in Cultural Policy -- Why a Federal Cultural Policy? -- The Culture Wars -- CASE: The World Trade Center, New York, New York -- 4 Forms of State Intervention I: Regulation -- Certification -- Standards and Bans -- Licensing and Permits -- Planning -- Policy Lab 4: Culture and the City -- Why Regulate Culture? -- What Local Regulation Requires -- Problems Raised by Local Regulation -- CASE: Jazz and the Tremé, New Orleans, Louisiana -- 5 Forms of State Intervention II: Provision -- Public Provision -- Subsidy -- Grantmaking -- Tax Expenditure -- Policy Lab 5: Supporting Nonprofit Culture -- Why Target Nonprofits? -- Problems Raised by Delivering Provision Through Nonprofits -- How Support Is Delivered Matters -- CASE: The Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle, Washington -- 6 Data and Research -- Data Infrastructure -- Policy Research -- Policy Lab 6: Cultural Measurement -- Why Measure Culture? -- Some Descriptive Cultural Measures -- Baseline Measures -- CASE: The Denver Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD), Denver, Colorado -- 7 Comparing Cultural Policies -- Archetypes of National Cultural Policy -- Cultural Policy and Cultural Ideology -- Global Cultural Policy Norms -- 8 Contemporary Issues -- Creativity -- Place -- Cultural Equity -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.