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Domnina, S. V., and O. A. Podkopaev. "ATTRACTING PUBLIC FINANCIAL SUPPORT FROM CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS." Фундаментальные исследования (Fundamental research), no. 9 2020 (2020): 20–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.17513/fr.42837.
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Bychkova, O. "Measuring economic value of cultural institutions: cultural sector efficiency in public policy." Voprosy Ekonomiki, no. 6 (June 20, 2016): 116–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.32609/0042-8736-2016-6-116-130.
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Today, many cultural institutions like museums, theaters or libraries, are considered as major economic agents who can have a profound economic impact. This paper reviews different approaches to analyze economic value and efficiency of cultural institutions in public policy; it also discusses the major arguments that explain the evolving roles of those institutions in society. The shortcomings of the evaluation approaches are also discussed.
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Weerts, David J. "The Organizational Ecology of State Support for Public Flagship Universities." Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education 123, no. 8 (2021): 114–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/01614681211048631.
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Background/Context: Several studies have investigated state political and economic factors that explain differences in levels of state appropriations for colleges and universities. Few studies have considered how stakeholder beliefs or taken-for-granted assumptions about various institutions may impact budgeting decisions for specific campuses. A gap in the literature remains in understanding how normative agreements about various institutional types—such as public flagship universities—may influence levels of state appropriations for these institutions. Purpose/Objective/Research Question/Focus of Study: This study investigates how levels of state support for research universities might relate to their formal, informal, or even contested status as public flagship institutions. The research question guiding this study is: How might flagship identity relate to differences in levels of state appropriations for public research universities across states? Research Design: This multicase study examines differences in levels of state support for four flagship universities between 1984 and 2004. Case institutions were generated from an analysis of outlier institutions that received lower- or higher-than-predicted levels of appropriations during the two-decade period. Outliers analyzed for this study include the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and University of Virginia (lower-than-predicted support) and the University of Connecticut and the University of Maryland-College Park (higher-than-predicted support). Qualitative data were collected and analyzed to investigate disparities in state support among these four institutions. Findings/Results: This study found that a “flagship ideal” exists across the four cases, which provides meaning for stakeholders as they consider levels of state funding for these institutions. Idealized views of flagships provided advantages to some institutions and disadvantaged others in state budgeting processes during the study period. In addition, normative beliefs about the case institutions were mediated by state culture, politics, and powerful regional influences. Higher education governance structure was less important than cultural and political context in making sense of variations in state support across the institutions. Conclusions/Recommendations: The study suggests that flagship university leaders must be mindful about taken-for-granted assumptions held by key stakeholders and resource providers as they create appeals for state support. Across all institutional types, leaders must be attuned to the historical, cultural, economic, or political factors that shape understandings about their institutions. In addition, leaders must evaluate the influence of allies or foes in shaping the narrative about the institution’s unique identity and need for funding. Strategic leaders leverage their institutional identities and unique governing arrangements in ways that expand resource opportunities.
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Getha-Taylor, Heather, Maja Husar Holmes, and Justin R. Moen. "Evidence-Based Interventions for Cultural Competency Development Within Public Institutions." Administration & Society 52, no. 1 (2018): 57–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0095399718764332.
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Cultural competency is critical to ensuring responsive public services. This article asks how we might develop individual cultural competency in a meaningful way, including which interventions are effective in enhancing cultural competence of experienced public employees. We examine the impact of targeted interventions on the development of individual public administrator cultural competence using a survey developed by Longoria and Rangarajan. The findings suggest the importance of understanding cultural competency as a developmental process that requires attention to the multidimensional aspects (knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviors) of cultural competency and developing training that reflects these realities.
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Keller, Paul, Thomas Margoni, Katarzyna Rybicka, and Alek Tarkowski. "Re-use of public sector information in cultural heritage institutions." International Free and Open Source Software Law Review 6, no. 1 (2014): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.5033/ifosslr.v6i1.104.
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Strang, Tom. "Developing a GIS of Hazards for Canadian Cultural Institutions." Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 2 (June 15, 2018): e26305. http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/biss.2.26305.
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The Canadian Conservation Institute (CCI) has developed a Geographic Information System (GIS) of hazards for Canadian cultural heritage institutions. The greatly increased access to open data is changing how advisory bodies like the CCI and the public can access and share information. For the purpose of investigating how a GIS approach can assist the CCI with its mandate to improve the preservation of collections, a map layer of cultural heritage institutions across Canada has been assembled and continues to be upgraded for accuracy, inclusion and detail (Fig. 1). This was combined with a collation of hazard layers; a partial list includes: seismic risk, notably expectations of earthquake severity tied to improvements in the national building code, tsunami exposure, wildfire data, hurricane, tornado, lightning density, pest distribution, and energy use indicators such as heating degree days and climate norm data. The platform allows examination of expectations around climate change driven risks such as sea-level rise, storm-incursions, permafrost melt. The GIS approach will also allow reassessments around expected changes to flood risk maps issued by jurisdictions, as well as Statistics Canada layers on population related factors such as changes in numbers of local populations, income and demographic shifts which can be stressors or opportunities. Sources have been drawn from federal, provincial, municipal, and academic evaluations of hazards, which now are more commonly published as GIS products. Mapping Canadian heritage institution's within a GIS improves our ability to: visualise and interpret to clients the relative magnitude of their local hazards, make ties to more refined local analyses, and show adjacencies to mapped historical events. From a national perspective the GIS can generate profiles of aggregated institutional exposure to the hazards, and more readily identify sub-populations of institutions for which particular risks would rank higher or lower among their concerns. This improves CCI's preventive conservation advisory service's perspective on mappable risks for any institution we deal with as clients. Ultimately, through federal initiatives in open data, it is our intention that client groups can look at the GIS for the purpose of educating themselves on hazards they would want to prepare for.
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Mojic, Dusan, Jelena Jovancevic, and Sasa Jovancevic. "Culture and public administration reforms in postsocialist transformation: The case of Serbia." Sociologija 60, no. 3 (2018): 653–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/soc1803653m.
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The paper deals with cultural embeddedness of public administration transformations in Serbia during postsocialism. Public administration reform represents an important aspect of transformation of overall institutional framework in contemporary societies. According to institutional approach, the changes of formal institutions (including public administration) are deeply embedded in informal institutions or culture. Theoretical and methodological framework of the GLOBE research program has been used as a basis for the empirical analysis. The goal of the paper has been to identify the scores on cultural dimensions in Serbia and to analyze the correlation of these scores with expectations of the public administration reform. The expected similarity of culture in Serbia with other East European cultures has been confirmed, as well as hypothesis about its norms and values as strong informal obstacles for successful public administration reform.
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Stainforth, Elizabeth, and Ana Baeza Ruiz. "Technologies of public culture: Heritage encounters with photography, television and the web." International Journal of Cultural Studies 22, no. 4 (2018): 595–611. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1367877918801036.
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The operations through which cultural heritage institutions perform their civic and governmental roles have been identified with a logic of visual apprehension by writers such as Tony Bennett. This article explores how these institutions have ordered and regulated contact with their publics via a negotiation of different visual communication technologies, specifically, photography, television and the web. Through analysis of individual cases, it is possible to discern the shifting relationship between public heritage institutions and their audiences, as mediated by these technologies. It is argued that this approach develops a distinctive understanding of public culture and demonstrates the ways in which notions of publicness shape and are shaped by visual communication technologies in the cultural heritage context.
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Polčák, Radim. "Digitisation, Cultural Institutions and Intellectual Property." Masaryk University Journal of Law and Technology 9, no. 2 (2015): 121–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/mujlt2015-2-7.
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Digitisation of cultural content represents one of most challenging problems of contemporary IP law. Cultural artefacts, let it be books, paintings or 3D objects, are often very old, so there are no issues in copyright protection of their content. However, the public availability of such content is in these cases strongly limited namely due to physical conditions of the carriers and subsequent conservation demands.Digitisation might serve here as powerful enabler of re-use of these works that are frequently of enormous cultural value. On the other hand, getting useful (and re-usable) digital images of 2D or 3D cultural objects means to invest into advanced technologies that are able to capture the respective content while protecting its fragile carriers from physical damage or destruction. Consequently, there is a need for business models that can motivate investors by offering them valuable consideration for such efforts.Recently, such business models are based namely on exclusive agreements between digitisers and cultural institutions that, together with specific copyright protection of digitised images in some jurisdictions, create new form of legal barriers to re-use of even very old cultural content. The paper critically discusses these new restrictive legal instruments namely in the light of the revised PSI re-use directive.
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Rius-Ulldemolins, Joaquim, and Ricardo Klein. "From artistic direction to cultural management: governance and management of Barcelona's artistic institutions in the twenty-first century." International Journal of Public Sector Management 34, no. 1 (2020): 33–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijpsm-03-2020-0082.
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PurposeDuring the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, debate about the governance and management of national cultural institutions has largely focused on the problematic relationship between art and the economy. However, several more recent changes have made this discussion outdated. These include loss of autonomy in the art world, transformation of cultural production and distribution and instrumentalisation of cultural policies to generate a new context leading to the emergence of art managers.Design/methodology/approachIn terms of cultural policy, the interplay between the governance and management of national cultural institutions is currently problematic, with the work of art managers now replacing the previous “art versus economy” binomial. Here, we demonstrate the growing centrality of the governance paradigm and generation of public value in the local context, by qualitatively examining the discourses of politicians and national cultural institution managers in Barcelona.FindingsWe concluded that a new interface between policymakers and managers has appeared in twenty-first century cultural institutions, and that this has replaced the previous antagonism between artistic directors and managers. Finally, although there is a consensus that the objective of national cultural institutions should be to enhance public value, we also identified the presence of a symbolic battle over how this public value is defined and who should evaluate it.Originality/valueThis paper reveals the centrality of this new debate: policymakers and managers have developed discourses and strategies so that their vision of public value now predominates. In turn, this debate has become the new “battlefield” of cultural policy and reflects a rebalancing between the artistic and political spheres.
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Bhagat, Devendra, and David D. Williams. "Cultural Context and Development of Partnership." Proceedings of the Human Factors Society Annual Meeting 31, no. 3 (1987): 335–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/154193128703100315.
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A university-public school partnership analysis reveals how the cultural context associated with existing institutions can both facilitate and impede the emergence of a new culture those institutions attempt to create and often involves entire cultural reforms and organizational conversion.
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Feinberg, Melanie. "Personal Expressive Bibliography in the Public Space of Cultural Heritage Institutions." Library Trends 59, no. 4 (2011): 588–606. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/lib.2011.0023.
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Oyekanmi, Abdullahi Abiodun, and Azeez Oyindamola Agboola. "The Role of Comparative Public Administration in the Development of Public Institutions: The Nigerian and Britain Example." Journal of Public Administration and Governance 12, no. 1 (2022): 153. http://dx.doi.org/10.5296/jpag.v12i1.19671.
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Comparative Public Administration and Public Administration are identified as branches of Political Science. While public administration is more attached to the action part of government policies and Implementation, comparative public administration dwells more on research endeavors as a practical field of assessing regular patterns and differences of cross-cultural administrative structures among countries. The paper is a descriptive and comparative analysis of Nigeria and Britain Public Administration to develop critical institutions for better performances. Thus, selected institutions in Britain were made the flagship of comparison with Nigeria, to discover the pattern of similarities and differences that can help to retool Nigeria’s public institution for better effective service delivery. It was discovered that good governance and public service delivery would be unimpressive due to the weakness of Nigeria's institutions that have been perverted by corruption, selfish idiosyncrasies of leadership, ethno linguistic sentiments, and lawlessness among other challenges which are not entrenched in Britain. In solutions, concerted efforts towards building strong institutions, advocacy for due process in policy formulation and implementation, the entrenchment of patriotism in public service, and encouragement of research in Comparative Administration are recommended
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Potter, Brad. "Financial accounting reforms in the Australian public sector." Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 15, no. 1 (2002): 69–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/09513570210418897.
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In recent years in Australia, accounting regulations have been developed that require the adoption of commercial accounting and reporting practices by public‐sector organisations, including the recognition of cultural, heritage and scientific collections as assets by non‐profit cultural organisations. The regulations inappropriately apply traditional accounting concepts of accountability and performance, notwithstanding that the primary objectives of many of the organisations affected are not financial. This study examines how this was able to occur within the ideas outlined in Douglas’s (1986) How Institutions Think. The study provides evidence to demonstrate that the development; promotion, and defense of the detailed accounting regulations were each constrained by institutional thinking and, as a result, only certain questions were asked and many problems and issues associated with the regulations were not addressed. Thus, it seeks to further our understanding of the nature and limits of change in accounting and the role of institutions in promoting and defending changes to accounting practice.
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Lee, J. Scott. "Cultural Institutions, Theatre and Humanistic Liberal Education." Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies 28, no. 1 (2016): 152–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/jis2016281/28.
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The purported crisis and opportunity in liberal education may be approached via a reconsideration of the arts in liberal arts education. The advantage of such a view is that proponents of humanistic liberal education could speak in their own terms, while incorporating in a systematic way studies of ancient and modern liberal arts, addressing public questions of the value and substance of a liberal education. A plausible issue for consideration is whether the “arts” can address a crisis, its purported causes and solutions, and the key role the humanities may have in building a renewed liberal arts education. At stake in the classroom is the realization of the possibilities, the intellectual freedom, which humans make for themselves in artistic making. This freedom differs from, but is complementary to, political freedom, the loadstone of standard liberal education defenses, because it is based in innovations and inventions of the arts and sciences, not in constitutions or politics of democracy.
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Krawczyńska, Alicja. "Wdrożenie elementów Scruma w instytucji kultury." Zarządzanie w Kulturze 22, no. 2 (2021): 197–216. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/20843976zk.21.013.13767.
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Implementation of Scrum Elements in a Cultural Institution Since March 2020, managers of cultural institutions have had to dynamically adapt their methodologies for teamwork, project management, and ongoing institutional tasks to the COVID-19 restrictions and guidelines handed down by public authorities. Following the initial downtime in the spring season and the reopening in June 2020, the Pod Atlantami Municipal Library in Wałbrzych took vigorous measures to adapt its cultural project management to the new conditions, drawing on the experience of the broadly understood business sector. These measures included the implementation of certain elements of Scrum as an agile framework for project management. The goal of the paper is to showcase the pilot implementation of Scrum elements in project management in the selected cultural institution. The analysis relied on structured questionnaires and open questions, visualisation meetings, and semi-structured interviews. Data analysis showed the applicability of backlog management, iterative planning, and iterative task execution to projects pursued by cultural institutions, along with potential for winning the employees’ approval. However, a properly executed implementation is necessary, in which regard this paper offers a set of recommendations arising from the analysis.
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Lusińska, Anna. "Komunikowanie lokalnej instytucji kultury na przykładzie Elbląskiego Towarzystwa Kulturalnego w Elblągu." Media Biznes Kultura, no. 2 (9) (2020): 73–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/25442554.mbk.20.018.13182.
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Communicating a local cultural institution on the example of Elbląg Cultural Society in Elbląg The article joins the discussion on marketing communication of Polish cultural institutions that are also public benefit organizations. The aim of the article is to identify and analyse selected forms and tools used by the Elbląg Cultural Association – a Public Benefit Organization in Elbląg to communicate with the local community and an assessment of this communication. Research methods such as face-to-face interview, case study, desk research and participant observation were used. Research has shown that the majority of Polish local cultural institutions conduct marketing communication in an inept manner, without preparation, without a strategy of action, implementing most often broadly defined Internet promotion. The Elbląg Cultural Association communicates correctly, in a well-planned and efficiently organized manner with its local community. Using various communication tools, it implements many cultural projects, informing the public about them well in advance. It does not remain indifferent to comments and ideas obtained in the form of feedback from participants of cultural events.
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Lusińska, Anna. "Komunikowanie lokalnej instytucji kultury na przykładzie Elbląskiego Towarzystwa Kulturalnego w Elblągu." Media Biznes Kultura, no. 2 (9) (2020): 73–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/25442554.mbk.20.018.13182.
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Communicating a local cultural institution on the example of Elbląg Cultural Society in Elbląg The article joins the discussion on marketing communication of Polish cultural institutions that are also public benefit organizations. The aim of the article is to identify and analyse selected forms and tools used by the Elbląg Cultural Association – a Public Benefit Organization in Elbląg to communicate with the local community and an assessment of this communication. Research methods such as face-to-face interview, case study, desk research and participant observation were used. Research has shown that the majority of Polish local cultural institutions conduct marketing communication in an inept manner, without preparation, without a strategy of action, implementing most often broadly defined Internet promotion. The Elbląg Cultural Association communicates correctly, in a well-planned and efficiently organized manner with its local community. Using various communication tools, it implements many cultural projects, informing the public about them well in advance. It does not remain indifferent to comments and ideas obtained in the form of feedback from participants of cultural events.
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Dzunic, Marija, Natasa Golubovic, and Srdjan Marinkovic. "Determinants of institutional trust in transition economies: Lessons from Serbia." Ekonomski anali 65, no. 225 (2020): 135–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/eka2025135d.
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This study aims to provide evidence on the drivers of institutional trust in transition economies. Trust in institutions is of critical importance for the consolidation of democracy, as well as for political and social stability. Bearing in mind the political developments during the transition, the fragile democracies of post-socialist countries have faced significant challenges in terms of declining institutional trust, leading to problems of legitimacy and government ineffectiveness. Therefore, the transition countries represent a fertile ground for testing the theories that explain the origins and dynamics of institutional trust. In this paper we explore the level of institutional trust in Serbia and test the alternative views on the determinants of trust in key institutions of cultural and institutional theories. The cultural perspective implies that the level of trust in institutions is dependent on citizens? long-standing and deep-seated cultural norms, while the institutional approach explains trust as the outcome of individual perceptions of institutional performance. In order to examine the cultural and institutional variables that explain trust in a set of public institutions in Serbia, we employ individual-level data from the Life in Transition Survey. The analysis is aimed at generating policy suggestions and measures that can raise institutional credibility.
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Ke, Ping, Xin Chen, Yingxi Liu, and Yimin Zhao. "Library strategic environment in the public cultural service system in China." Library Management 37, no. 4/5 (2016): 195–209. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/lm-02-2016-0013.
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Purpose – China is currently constructing the public cultural service system on a national scale. Library strategic environment problems, such as the status of library in the public cultural service system, the relationship with relevant public cultural service institutions/organizations, and the factors influencing library development, etc., which increasingly raise people’s concern. The purpose of this paper is to solve above mentioned problems. Design/methodology/approach – This paper used online and offline questionnaires to solicit feedback from public cultural service institutions/organizations. Based on the data from questionnaires, this paper analyzed library strategic environment in the public cultural service system in mainland China by adopting correlation analysis, mean analysis and factor analysis, etc. Findings – Stakeholders (relevant public cultural service institutions) highly valued the status of library and no respondents believed that library did not belong to the public cultural service system. Compared with competing relationship between enterprises, library and relevant cultural services institutions were partners rather than competitors. Three main factors that influenced library strategic planning were identified: internal conditions factors, external environment factors and stakeholder related factors. Research limitations/implications – There are some limitations of this thesis. For instance, the sample size is not large enough and respondents are confined to cities, which may reduce the generalizability of the findings. Originality/value – Through this analysis, library can learn more of national cultural environment in China, and take necessary measures to cope with these changes.
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Łobocka, Małgorzata. "Funkcjonowanie kontroli zarządczej w instytucjach kultury." Zarządzanie Publiczne, no. 4 (52) (2020): 139–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/20843968zp.20.011.13702.
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Kontrola zarządcza funkcjonuje w instytucjach kultury na mocy ustawy o finansach publicznych z dnia 27 sierpnia 2019 roku. W tekście zadano pytanie, czy wspomaga ona zarządzanie oraz służy poprawie procedur i procesów, czy jej rola została ograniczona do kolejnego obowiązku sprawozdawczego. Na podstawie analizy wniosków z funkcjonowania kontroli zarządczej w kilku stołecznych instytucjach można udowodnić, że sprawnie przeprowadzana kontrola zarządcza jest bardzo dobrym narzędziem weryfikacji problemów we wszystkich aspektach działalności instytucji kultury. Performing internal control in cultural institutions Internal control operates in cultural institutions under the Public Finance Act of 27 August 2019. In the text the question was raised: whether it supports management of cultural institution, improves procedures and processes, whether its role has been limited to reporting obligation. Based on the analysis of conclusions from the functioning of internal control in several Warsaw institutions, it can be proved that an efficiently conducted internal control is a very good tool for verifying problem in all aspects of the activities of cultural institution.
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Beales, Kristen. "Auditing Revival: George Whitefield and Public Accounting in Colonial America." Church History 90, no. 4 (2021): 824–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0009640721002791.
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AbstractThis article situates George Whitefield's accounting controversies of the 1740s in the local public accounting cultures of colonial America. It argues that Whitefield developed a novel “commercial theology” and funding strategy for his Georgia orphanage that he believed would allow God to shape every aspect of the institution. While Whitefield's published financial accounts initially provoked little commentary, his critics began to use accounting as an “impartial” tool to disprove the minister's theology. The bold theological claims and lack of institutional oversight embedded in Whitefield's accounts violated the norms of public accounting, and his critics stated that an independent audit was the only way to clear the minister's name. The audit worked, and the combination of Whitefield's experience managing a transatlantic institution and his accounting controversies caused the minister to change his commercial theology. This article uses Whitefield's accounting controversies to make two overarching arguments. First, it argues that religious institutions were key parts of the local public accounting systems that shaped the development of financial ethics in colonial America. Second, it argues that financial accounts both shaped and reflected the religious assumptions of the bookkeepers who produced them.
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Molchanova, N. V. "ФОРМИРОВАНИЕ ИМИДЖА ОРГАНИЗАЦИИ СОЦИАЛЬНО-КУЛЬТУРНОЙ СФЕРЫ КАК ЭФФЕКТИВНЫЙ ИНСТРУМЕНТ КОНКУРЕНТОСПОСОБНОСТИ". Pedagogical IMAGE 15, № 3 (2021): 335–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.32343/2409-5052-2021-15-3-335-344.
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This paper examines the procedural basis for building an image of sociocultural organizations as an effective tool for competitiveness in the market for cultural services. The study focuses on image projection and the search for ways and means to increase the attractiveness of the image of cultural organizations to improve their performance. The research aims to identify modern tools to enhance institution prestige, including marketing, advertising, and public relations in the culture field, which are necessary to attract consumers. These tools will guarantee the development and expansion of a range of sociocultural services of the enterprise. These institutions should find an opportunity to independently build and maintain a positive image. All these measures are necessary to make these institutions competitive, efficient, recognizable, and attractive to the public, sponsors, and business partners, which will create demand for their services. Today, the establishment of the business reputation of any sociocultural institution and business success largely depend on interaction with public opinion.
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Iannelli, Laura, and Carolina M. Marelli. "Performing civic cultures: Participatory public art and its publics." International Journal of Cultural Studies 22, no. 5 (2019): 630–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1367877919849964.
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This research investigated the performances of participatory public art as ways of taking political agency in contemporary democracy. We considered these ‘maximalist’ forms of participation – ‘multi-sited’, as the language of democratic theory suggests, in both the political sphere of art and the formal arena of politics – as ways of doing, acting, and performing citizenship in democratic societies. Drawing upon the ‘cultural turn’ in citizenship studies, we assumed civic cultures as central variables to explain these forms of political agency. Referring to media audience research, we adopted an analytical framework to explore the artists’ civic cultures that are in action in public urban spaces. The analysis focused on performances of citizenship developed in Sardinia (Italy). The research shed light on the artists’ knowledge and values, the multiple layers of audience participation envisaged in their practices of communication, their (dis)trust towards institutions and non-elite actors in civil society, and the civic identities they perform in contemporary societies.
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Alsmadi, Duha, Jiangping Chen, Victor Prybutok, and Guruprasad Gadgil. "E-Learning in Jordanian Higher Education: Cultural Perspectives and Institutional Readiness." Journal of Information & Knowledge Management 16, no. 04 (2017): 1750035. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0219649217500356.
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This study explores students’ acceptance of e-learning technology in Jordanian higher educational institutions. A paucity of studies that were conducted in individual institutions indicated that different cultural perspectives and resistance to change are overlaying the wide adoption of e-learning and influencing users’ perceptions pertaining the technology usefulness and/or ease of use. Our study utilises the technology acceptance model (TAM) and explores the influence of the main antecedents of accepting this technology from users’ perspectives, that is, perceived usefulness (PU) and perceived ease of use (PEU) in order to reveal the country’s readiness to adopt this technology and move from individual innovations to institutional standards. The results obtained using a survey-based methodology from three main public and private institutions distributed in multiple geographical areas show that the actual behaviour of usage is influenced by behavioural intention (BI), which is directed by PU, PEU, and attitude. Based on these results, multiple recommendations pertaining to cultural perspectives and educational institutions readiness are proposed and implications of the study are discussed.
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Kam, Miah, and Jee Yeon Lee. "A Comparative Study of Cultural Programs Offered by Public Libraries and Other Regional Public Service Institutions." Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science 24, no. 4 (2013): 197–215. http://dx.doi.org/10.14699/kbiblia.2013.24.4.197.
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Chung, Hong Ik. "Cultural Policy and Development in Korea." Korean Journal of Policy Studies 7 (December 31, 1992): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.52372/kjps07001.
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Although the importance of interfacing development with culture had long been recognized by policy makers and development planners, analysis of national development plans and activities shows that many developing countries have not accorded to culture a central place either as an object or an instrument of development. Korea has not been an exception to this. The typical thinking among the early policy planners in fact was that traditional values and institutions have placed too much emphasis on the spiritual, cultural aspect of a person or society to the point of disregarding and even neglecting the material needs. The backwardness of the nation owed, they believed, much to the overemphasis upon the spiritual and cultural value at the expense of the material well-being of the people. The materialistic culture of the west on the other hand was assumed to have enabled their societies to develop rapidly through industrialization.
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Mahony, Emma. "Opening Spaces of Resistance in the Corporatized Cultural Institution: Liberate Tate and the Art Not Oil Coalition." Museum and Society 15, no. 2 (2017): 126–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.29311/mas.v15i2.828.
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In the current economic climate where state subsidies for the arts have been steadily eroded, there is a consensus in support of the good of corporate sponsorship for cultural institutions. This article seeks to problematize this consensus by critiquing the strategies that corporations employ in their sponsorship agreements with public cultural institutions and opening up a discussion around the ethical issues this poses for their recipients. It then examines how a coalition of subversive arts collectives, that come together under the banner ‘Art Not Oil’, have begun to successfully shatter this consensus through a sustained campaign of unauthorized live art interventions enacted inside cultural institutions. It argues that the unique strategy of resistance they employ operates at an interstitial distance to the public cultural institutions they target, from where they open up spaces of resistance ultimately capable of rewriting the cultural sectors’ corporatized value system.Key Words: Corporate sponsorship, Public cultural sector, Liberate Tate, Simon Critchley, Interstitial distance
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Modzelewska, Anna, Sebastian Skuza, Marta Szeluga-Romańska, and Marta Materska-Samek. "Towards Greater Citizen Participation in Financing Public Cultural Institutions—Legal Barriers and Proposed Solutions." Sustainability 12, no. 19 (2020): 7957. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12197957.
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The paper contains a conceptual proposal that aims at indicating new models of participatory financing of cultural institutions as well as actions towards supporting culture. It presents results of a qualitative study in the form of action research, on identifying legal barriers of financing of cultural institutions in Poland. Additionally, it presents practical suggestions to the encountered problems that were worked out after discussions with cultural managers, taxpayers, and government administration decision-makers. The unique value of the study is a multidimensional and complex analysis of participatory financing of culture, citing varied sources and bearing a structured research procedure. We suggest a new discussion on establishing legal solutions for increasing of the funding or making the financing of cultural institutions more flexible, which appears to be particularly important in crisis times. All is presented as an original concept of participatory citizen-enterprise fiscal mechanism of supporting cultural institutions. We present a pragmatic solution to a problem of additional public support of culture, which can be put into practice parallel to state mechanisms, considering culture as a part of sustainable development.
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Ojomo, Edefe. "Regional Institutions as Bypasses of States in the Provision of Public Goods: The Case of West Africa." AJIL Unbound 111 (2017): 247–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/aju.2017.64.
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The idea of “West Africa” encompasses a medley of countries with diverse historical, political, and cultural features. However, their governance and development profiles are distinctly similar: the United Nations recognizes eleven of the fifteen members of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) as least developed countries. In this context, regional institutions are usually established to strengthen state capacity by providing resources to address national capacity deficits. Above all, they serve as systems of support that are supplementary to state institutions with distinct governance roles. However, regional institutions can—and should—play a second role: serving as alternatives to weak or fragile state institutions that are deficient in the supply of different public goods. By performing this second role, regional arrangements become international institutional bypasses.
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Hutchinson, Jonathon. "From Fringe to Formalisation: An Experiment in Fostering Interactive Public Service Media." Media International Australia 155, no. 1 (2015): 5–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878x1515500103.
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The role assumed by institutions that directly develop and support online communities has emerged as a crucial factor in the development of self-governance models for online communities engaging in collaborative practices. Commonly, online communities reject top-down governance models in favour of a meritocracy that positions users in authoritative positions because of their online performance. Scholarly research into online communities suggests that their governance models are horizontal, even where the community platforms are being developed or supported by commercial institutions. Questions of authority and power emerge when institutional, top-down governance models intersect with online community meritocracy in day-to-day communicative activities and while engaging in creative production. This article examines an experiment in fostering interactive public service media by users of the now-defunct ABC Pool through the case study of Ariadne. It tracks how early user-driven ideas for creativity were aligned with the interests of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation through a process of community self-governance alongside cultural intermediation.
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Molenda, Radosław. "The Specific Features of Public Relations Maintained by Libraries, Acting as Cultural Institutions." Cultural Management: Science and Education 4, no. 1 (2020): 145–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.30819/cmse.4-1.09.
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Showing the specificity of the work of the contemporary library, and the variety of its tasks, which go far beyond the lending of books. The specificity of the library’s public relations concerning different aspects of its activity. The internal and external functions of the library’s public relations and their specificity. The significant question of motivating the social environment to use the offer of libraries, and simulta-neously the need to change the negative perception of the library, which discourages part of its poten-tial users from taking advantage of its services. The negative stereotypes of librarians’ work perpetuated in the public consciousness and their harmful character. The need to change the public relations of libra-ries and librarians with a view to improving the realization of the tasks they face. Showing the public relations tools which may serve to change the image of librarians and libraries with particular emphasis on social media. This article is a review article, highlighting selected research on the librarian’s stereo-type and suggesting actions that change the image of librarians and libraries.
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Kuleva, Margarita. "Cultural administrators as creative workers: the case of public and non-governmental cultural institutions in St. Petersburg." Cultural Studies 32, no. 5 (2018): 727–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09502386.2018.1429005.
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Ferri, Paolo, Shannon I. L. Sidaway, and Garry D. Carnegie. "The paradox of accounting for cultural heritage: a longitudinal study on the financial reporting of heritage assets of major Australian public cultural institutions (1992–2019)." Accounting, Auditing & Accountability Journal 34, no. 4 (2021): 983–1012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/aaaj-01-2019-3807.
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PurposeThe monetary valuation of cultural heritage of a selection of 16 major public, not-for-profit Australian cultural institutions is examined over a period of almost three decades (1992–2019) to understand how they have responded to the paradoxical tensions of heritage valuation for financial reporting purposes.Design/methodology/approachAccounting for cultural heritage is an intrinsically paradoxical practice; it involves a conflict of two opposite ways of attributing value: the traditional accounting and the heritage professionals (or curatorial) approaches. In analysing the annual reports and other documentary sources through qualitative content analysis, the study explores how different actors responded to the conceptual and technical contradictions posed by the monetary valuation of “heritage assets”, the accounting phraseology of accounting standards.FindingsFour phases emerge from the analysis undertaken of the empirical material, each characterised by a distinctive nature of the paradox, the institutional responses discerned and the outcomes. Although a persisting heterogeneity in the practice of accounting for cultural heritage is evident, responses by cultural institutions are shown to have minimised, so far, the negative impacts of monetary valuation in terms of commercialisation of deaccessioning decisions and distorted accountability.Originality/valueIn applying the theoretical lens of paradox theory in the context of the financial reporting of heritage, as assets, the study enhances an understanding of the challenges and responses by major public cultural institutions in a country that has led this development globally, providing insights to accounting standard setters arising from the accounting practices observed.
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Tsiara, Syrago. "Contemporary Greek Art in Times of Crisis: Cuts and Changes." Journal of Visual Culture 14, no. 2 (2015): 176–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1470412915595587.
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This essay addresses the issue of cuts in the cultural sector in Greece during the last five years and its consequences on the sustainability of artistic production, institutional survival and emerging forms of collaboration, self-management and art in public space. It describes new practices and strategies of cultural institutions and the relationship between the private and public spheres. Long-term artistic projects, such as the Athens and Thessaloniki Biennale, public museums like the State Museum of Contemporary Art, private organizations and artist initiatives are discussed in the context of crisis.
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Amenta, Edwin, and Francesca Polletta. "The Cultural Impacts of Social Movements." Annual Review of Sociology 45, no. 1 (2019): 279–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-soc-073018-022342.
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The most important impacts of social movements are often cultural, but the sheer variety of potential cultural impacts—from shifts in public opinion to new portrayals of a group on television to the metrics guiding funding in a federal agency—presents unique challenges to scholars. Rather than treating culture as a social sphere separate from politics and the economy, we conceptualize it as the ideas, values, and assumptions underpinning policies and practices in all spheres. We review recent research on movements’ impacts on public opinion and everyday behavior; the media and popular culture; nonpolitical institutions such as science, medicine, and education; and politics. We focus on cultural impacts that have mattered for movements’ constituencies and address why movements have had those impacts. We conclude with an agenda for future research, seeking greater connection between the literatures on movements and the literatures on the institutions that matter to movements.
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Trofymenko, Mykola. "Public diplomacy of the Italian Republic." Bulletin of Mariupol State University. Series: History. Political Studies 10, no. 27 (2020): 150–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.34079/2226-2830-2020-10-27-150-162.
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The article states that the Italian Republic is a country with an extremely developed soft power: Italian language, culture, cuisine, fashion, tourism, etc. Italy has unique mechanisms for the implementation of its public diplomacy (PD), which includes a wide network of Italian institutes of culture, schools, lectureships at foreign universities. In order to find out the origins of Italian cultural policy, the article refers to the period of Great Emigration of the late nineteenth century, and more precisely to the law of 1889, under which the Crispy government established the first Italian schools abroad, called "Royal Schools" (Scuole Regie), entrusting organizational and training control over them to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It is noted that one of the most effective and efficient actors of the PD of the Italian Republic is the network of Italian cultural institutes. The legislative origins of the Italian institutes of culture date back to the order of 1926. The idea of spreading Italian culture was formulated at the legislative level during fascism. The official purpose of these institutions was to spread Italian culture abroad and to develop intellectual relations with third world countries, without hiding the purpose of political and cultural penetration and propaganda of the regime. Within the article, it is mentioned that the central governing bodies of the Italian Foreign Ministry operate through a number of the General directorates that are responsible for various issues. In accordance with the above mentioned law no. 401, Directorate General for Cultural Relations (DGRC), which after the 2000 MFA reform was renamed to the Directorate General for Cultural Promotion and Cooperation (DGPCC) dealt with the cultural matter, it was a change that pointed to the new purposes of Italian foreign policy. In the early 2000s, the National Commission for the Promotion of Italian Culture Abroad joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, gaining momentum for the intensification of the cultural and scientific dimension of foreign policy and the development of new "General Directions for the Promotion and Dissemination of Italian Culture and Language Abroad". Currently, the network of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs consists of 127 embassies, 93 consulates, 83 cultural institutes, 261 lecturers, 291 educational institutions, 161 Italian departments, 21 scientific attachés and about 150 archeological missions. What is more, the committees of the Dante Alighieri Society and the organizations administering the Italian language courses in accordance with law no. 153/71 are added. It is a large network that must adapt to new foreign policy needs, trying to overcome not only a number of structural shortcomings, but also the geographical distribution of ministerial offices abroad, which no longer corresponds to the development of the world, politics and economy. Today's globalization processes, new geopolitical imbalances and a serious global economic and financial crisis have forced the Italian Foreign Ministry and the National Commission for the Promotion of Italian Culture Abroad to reconsider the activities and reorientation of functions and activities of Italian cultural institutions in reforming the state system. In the last three years, the need for savings in government spending has resulted in a constant and consistent decrease in resources for the country's international projection; so, in order to ensure the competitiveness of the Italian cultural offer, it is also necessary to adapt the mission and activities of the cultural institutions. The new founding principles, developed in March 2012, aimed to revolutionize the organization and management of the structure of the spread of the Italian language and culture abroad, largely interfering with the activities of Italian cultural institutions. They can be summarized as follows. Italian culture is a strategic asset for the entire state system. This role is expressed in terms of: - a resource for the national economy; - investments for the design of our production system; - employment opportunities for new generations. This is one of the most effective foreign policy tools for: - promotion of the general image of the country abroad; - supporting the process of internationalization of our companies; - assistance to government actions at the international level. The promotion of the Italian language and culture abroad has positive consequences for the country's economy, where intellectual resources, cultural heritage, creativity, innovation and research are indispensable capital for recovery and growth. To fully understand all the opportunities that can provide the promotion of culture in an increasingly complex and competitive international scenario, it is necessary to adapt the mission of cultural institutions to targeted strategies that can involve all components of the state system. It is concluded that Italian public diplomacy is focused on promoting cultural achievements, significant achievements of Italy in cinema, cuisine, fashion, many tourist destinations and more. An extensive network of Italian institutes of culture, Italian schools, and lectureships represents the Italian model of public diplomacy. The Italian Foreign Ministry actively uses universities to promote its interests, promote the Italian language and culture abroad. In general, it should be noted the high efficiency of the Italian model of public diplomacy, even taking into account the relatively low amount of funding. At the same time, the involvement of Italian producers in the promotion of Italy abroad is also positive.
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Yuwono, Andra Rizky, Agung Eko Budi Waspada, and Krishna Hutama. "NILAI-NILAI BUDAYA INSTITUSI PEMBENTUK IDENTITAS SMA NEGERI 3 BANJARMASIN." Jurnal Seni dan Reka Rancang: Jurnal Ilmiah Magister Desain 3, no. 1 (2020): 57. http://dx.doi.org/10.25105/jsrr.v3i1.8292.
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<em>Institution identity is a brief statement of the institution to the public, reflecting institutional values that can be seen from symbols, behavior and communication. The results of initial observations and interviews, SMA Negeri 3 Banjarmasin does not understand their values and identities. The porpose of this research is to understand the cultural values of the institutions that shape the identity of SMA Negeri 3 Banjarmasin. This research uses content analysis and a cultural approach to understanding the values that shape the identity of SMA 3 Banjarmasin and will be carried out at SMA 3 Banjarmasin, data collection will be done by observation, interview and documentation. The results of this study are visually the cultural values of institutions that shape the identity of SMA Negeri 3 Banjarmasin based on the vision of the school, the values are faith and piety, noble character, intelligent, skill, loving the environment. These 5 values are the core of the school culture that can be visually seen in various activities and programs that affect all internal aspects such as behavior, ways of communication, work environment, daily activities of all member of SMA Negeri 3 Banjarmasin, it forms a habit and culture so that it becomes part of the identity of SMA Negeri 3 Banjarmasin.</em>
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Wiśniewska, Aleksandra, Wiktor Budziński, and Mikołaj Czajkowski. "An economic valuation of access to cultural institutions: museums, theatres, and cinemas." Journal of Cultural Economics 44, no. 4 (2020): 563–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10824-020-09375-3.
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Abstract Cultural institutions are the main beneficiaries of public funds for culture. However, cultural policies suffer from ‘adhocism’ in the administration of institutions, which are often publicly owned and receive little recognition of the benefits that society gains from their use. The aim of this study is to provide the measurement of the use value of access to cultural institutions. Based on the observed individual attendances and their costs, a two-stage budgeting model is employed to estimate the change in consumer surplus related to the loss of access to cinemas, museums, and theatres in Warsaw, Poland. It is the first non-market valuation of cinemas in the existing literature. The inclusion of institutions’ entire markets helps to overcome the bias caused by the embedding effect and the availability of substitutes, which affects many single-site valuations. The estimated use values are compared with the subsidies received by the three groups of cultural institutions. Results reveal substantial benefits provided by cinemas, although cinemas are nearly excluded from the circulation of public support. The estimated use value is enough to justify subsidies for both highly subsidised sectors of museums and theatres. The estimation of use values serves as a starting point for the evaluation of the use of public resources.
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Ellis-King, Deirdre, and Marjory Sliney. "Public Libraries in Ireland II. Public libraries and the visual arts today." Art Libraries Journal 25, no. 3 (2000): 41–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0307472200011779.
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In recent years increased interest in the visual arts has led public libraries to increase stock to support this area, to organise exhibitions and to make connections with other arts-related bodies. The recognised extent, quality and value of the public library network lie both in its service to users and in good-quality and centrally located buildings. Imaginative links have been made between the library service and other cultural institutions in Ireland and elsewhere in Europe, particularly in the many thinly populated areas of the country which could otherwise be isolated from the cultural facilities available in the larger conurbations.
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Honcharenko, Nadiia. "European Experience of the Use of Grant Competitions as a Means of Supporting Culture from the Perspective of Institutional Reforms in Ukraine’s Cultural Sector." Culturology Ideas, no. 14 (2'2018) (2018): 131–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.37627/2311-9489-14-2018-2.131-139.
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The article offers an overview of the use of such policy instruments as grant competitions for public support of cultural and artistic projects in Poland. The overview includes grant-giving programs of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of Poland, in particular, their priorities, the sources for funding cultural projects, and institutions operating the programs. From the perspective of European integration chosen by Ukraine nowadays, the article also reviews the recent attempts to introduce similar institutions and grant-giving policy instruments in this country. In particular, recent establishment and early activities of Ukrainian Cultural Foundation has been analysed. First, Polish public grant-giving institutions have accumulated massive experience of co-operation between the state and independent cultural sector. Second, the main source of funding for public grant-giving institutions in Poland is secured by law as a special targeted levy, while in Ukraine the amount of funds given to the Foundation is to be defined in the State Budget each year. Third, there is a remarkable support from EU funds in Poland. Ukraine, on the other hand, only recently became eligible for participation in Creative Europe program. Finally, there are several public institutions offering grants for cultural projects in Poland (Polish Book Institute, the Film Institute, the Theatre Institute, etc.) while in this country, Ukrainian Cultural Foundation is the only one that practically provides grants, not just promises to do so.
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Sobakar, Andriy, and Anastasiya Aksyutina. "Institute of "cultural service" in the mechanism of public and legal support of the population with social and cultural services." Naukovyy Visnyk Dnipropetrovs'kogo Derzhavnogo Universytetu Vnutrishnikh Sprav 3, no. 3 (2020): 73–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.31733/2078-3566-2020-3-73-78.
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The article examines the problems of full provision of the population with socio-cultural services, using the necessary administrative and legal tools. A conceptual idea of the content of public law support for the development of the institution of "cultural service" and the process of providing quality socio-cultural services to the population, as well as the role of public administration in it. The important role in qualitative satisfaction of cultural needs of citizens of the state is emphasized, without support of which it is impossible to realize full social usefulness of cultural goods which significance is perceived by consumers by their value as an element of process of increase of cultural level of the population. The characteristic features of the cultural sphere as an object of public administration are clarified. The considered situation in the cultural sphere allowed to outline the modern determinants of in-hibiting the development of the institution of "cultural service" as a component of the mechanism of public law provision of quality and affordable cultural services, including: lack of equal conditions for Ukrainian citizens to access cultural services; devaluation of generally recognized cultural values and landmarks; insufficient use of the potential of cultural institutions, as well as low investment level of the cultural sector; lack of effective public control in the provision of cultural services to the population; constant legislative changes that prevent the achievement of the desired level of adaptation of the management system of cultural entities to environmental conditions, etc. It is concluded that the development of the institute of "cultural service" should be formed in the mechanism of public-law provision of social and cultural services, taking into account the basic principles formulated in the Concept of reforming the system of cultural services, with mandatory addition to the principles of independent quality assessment, information openness of cultural services, etc.
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Jajčević, Jasmin. "Establishment and activity of culture centers and people`s universities in northeastern Bosnia in the first years of “New Yugoslavia”." Historijski pogledi 3, no. 3 (2020): 219–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.52259/historijskipogledi.2020.3.3.219.
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Cultural and educational work after the Second World War in northeastern Bosnia, in addition to cultural, educational and artistic societies, took place in various cultural institutions, where cultural centers and public universities stand out. The houses of culture, in cooperation with societies, universities and various cultural and educational sections, organized events, lectures and various cultural and educational contents. Their importance was especially pronounced in the smaller rural areas of northeastern Bosnia, where they were the center of cultural and educational work. People's universities, as cultural and educational institutions, were supposed to nurture scientific and lecturing work, and to politically enlighten the population of urban and rural areas of northeastern Bosnia through various lectures. In essence, public universities were public schools in which ideologically appropriate lectures with various topics were mostly held and they played a significant role in the creation of a socialist society. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to point out the role and importance of the establishment of these cultural and educational institutions in northeastern Bosnia, and their overall contribution to the cultural and educational awareness of the population of northeastern Bosnia.
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Liew, Chern Li. "Social Metadata and Public-Contributed Contents in Memory Institutions: “Crowd Voice” Versus “Authenticated Heritage”?" Preservation, Digital Technology & Culture 45, no. 3 (2016): 122–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/pdtc-2016-0017.
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AbstractSocial technologies have led to increasing participatory activities and institutions are interested in the potential of using these for outreach and engagement. Through offering new spaces and tools that allow users to consume and also to contribute content, institutions are expanding their traditional services which could redefine their role and relevance in the digital cultural heritage landscape. This study investigates the decision-making and practices underpinning current handling of social metadata and public-contributed contents (PCC). The focus is on examining the motivations for soliciting contributions, if and how these are moderated and managed, if they are integrated into the institutional data and knowledge base, and the extent to which public stakeholders moderate. The study also involves an investigation of whether, and how, memory institutions consider diversity and inclusiveness in soliciting participation and contributions, and the values placed on PCC, as compared to institutional resources. The aim of this study is to shed light on these by surveying libraries, archives, museums, and other institutions.How institutions deal with the social metadata and PCC they gather, and what they do with the contributions, could be a key determining factor of the success of their participatory practice as part of their larger effort to capture and preserve collective memories. This survey shows that the profession still has a way to go towards these goals. There is little evidence that demonstrates integration of a participatory culture and activities into the strategic directions and documentary practices of institutions.
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Fernández-Martínez, José Luis, Patricia García-Espín, and Manuel Jiménez-Sánchez. "Participatory Frustration: The Unintended Cultural Effect of Local Democratic Innovations." Administration & Society 52, no. 5 (2019): 718–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0095399719833628.
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Most research on participatory processes has stressed the positive effects that these institutions have in the relationships between public authorities and civil society. This article analyzes a more negative product that has received scant attention: participatory frustration. Departing from Hirschman’s cycles of involvement and detachment, the article shows four paths toward frustration after engaging in institutional participatory processes: (a) inflated expectations, (b) the failure of design and adjusting mechanisms, (c) poor results, and (d) abrupt discontinuations. Drawing on six cases in Spanish cities, this article proposes a reflection on how participatory reforms can contribute to feed frustration and political disenchantment.
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Mendoza, Cristian, and Carl Beekman. "Transparency Culture & Ecclesial Responsibility: Reflections on Institutional Communications." Communication, Society and Media 1, no. 1 (2018): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/csm.v1n1p1.
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<em>We aim to provide a theoretical framework for enhancing the Catholic Church’s culture of transparency. We therefore define concepts of culture and transparency, stressing some of the institutional consequences due to their interaction. Finally, we apply these principles to the ecclesial institution’s fields that are attractive for the public square: the administration of temporal goods, the use of information and the dispensation of sacraments and religious teachings. Defining culture as the setting up of behavioral standards, we realize that the ones regarding transparency have been constantly raised in the last years by society, while the Church has remained stable in its long-term organizational principles. Applying a culture of transparency for the Church would therefore require to understand the dynamic of cultural change within the Church that is essentially united to the preservation of its own spiritual purposes. Also builds within itself a culture that sustains a culture of accountability. Ecclesial institutions as any institution, builds and sustains trust through its diligent and consistent refusal to abuse the power given. The ecclesiastical institution would change its standards of transparency when it is needed to keep up with its original mission not when it is just an exigency of its cultural environment.</em>
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Pena, Mary. "Black Public Art: On the Socially Engaged Work of Black Women Artist-Activists." Open Cultural Studies 3, no. 1 (2019): 604–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/culture-2019-0053.
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Abstract Inaugurated at the Brooklyn Museum of New York in 2017, the path-breaking exhibition “We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-85,” centers the creative expressions and lived experiences of black women artists within a primarily white, middle-class, heteronormative mainstream feminist movement. Engaging visual mediums, artist-activists rendered a black feminist politics through cultural and aesthetic productions. In so doing, artists recast extant representations of black social life, demanded inclusion within cultural institutions, and created black-oriented spaces for artistic engagement. In the contemporary global political climate of anti-blackness, artists craft socially engaged practices that creatively intervene in public space and the cultural institutional landscape. Through a critical analysis of Carrie Mae Weems’ Operation: Activate, Simone Leigh’s The Waiting Room, and LaToya Ruby Frazier’s Flint is Family, this essay concerns recent interventions that mobilize an expansive approach to art combined with activism. The myriad practices of Weems, Leigh, and Frazier recompose sites of political engagement and empowerment that enact a broader praxis of reimagining social worlds. These projects belie the representational fixity on which art economies hinge, gesturing to material formations that elicit tactile modes of relation, and challenge the bounds of subjects and objects in the world.
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Edmonson, Stacey L., and James W. Hynes. "Higher Education in Texas: a Brief Overview." Białostockie Studia Prawnicze 25, no. 4 (2020): 187–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.15290/bsp.2020.25.04.13.
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Abstract Institutions of Higher Education in Texas develop, support, and enhance the economic, cultural, and social wellbeing of the state and the country. These institutions offer courses and degrees in all disciplines. They are strategically located across the state to support the economic activity while reflecting on the historical and cultural makeup of the region. There are both public and private institutions. The primary focus of this article is on the public university systems in Texas. An overview of the processes of accreditation and governance is presented.
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Muzychuk, V. Yu. "Cultural Mandate of Local Governance: Running in Place." Federalism, no. 4 (December 15, 2020): 90–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.21686/2073-1051-2020-4-90-106.
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At present, local governments are unable to fulfil their cultural mandate either in terms of their functionality, or in the context of the required funding, or in terms of the scale and importance of tasks related to the development of culture. The article examines the problem of the ability of local governments to address the cultural agenda: the content of the network of municipal cultural institutions and ensuring the availability of cultural goods for the general population. The actions of the state over the past three decades testify to the implementation in Russia of managerial decisions that are extremely unfriendly to the cultural sphere. Firstly, we are talking about the reform of the budgetary sector, marked by the optimization, unification and commercialization of cultural institutions and a reduction in the number of employees. Secondly, within the framework of the reform of local government, all responsibility for the functioning of the so-called grassroots level of culture: public libraries, cultural and leisure institutions, local museums and art schools was transferred to the municipal level without bringing the required amount of public funding. The situation is aggravated by the accumulated socio-economic problems of municipalities, which reflected in the cultural sphere. A way out of the closed circle is seen in the revision and a clear definition of the area of responsibility of local government bodies in the field of culture and guaranteed public funding.
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Mulholland, James. "Translocal Anglo-India and the Multilingual Reading Public." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 135, no. 2 (2020): 272–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2020.135.2.272.
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This article proposes a new literary history of British Asia that examines its earliest communities and cultural institutions in translocal and regional registers. Combining translocalism and regionalism redefines Anglo‐Indian writing as constituted by multisited forces, only one of which is the reciprocal exchange between Britain and its colonies that has been the prevailing emphasis of literary criticism about empire. I focus on the eighteenth century's overlooked military men and lowlevel colonial administrators who wrote newspaper verse, travel poetry, and plays. I place their compositions in an institutional chronicle defined by the “cultural company‐state,” the British East India Company, which patronized and censored Anglo- India's multilingual reading publics. In the process of arguing for Anglo‐Indian literature as a local and regional creation, I consider the how the terms British and anglophone should function in literary studies of colonialism organized not by hybridity or creolization but by geographic relations of distinction. (JM)