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Street, John 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9650-063X
(2011)
The popular, the diverse and the excellent: Political values and UK cultural policy.
International Journal of Cultural Policy, 17 (4).
pp. 380-393.
ISSN 1028-6632
Abstract
This article is about the political values that underpin cultural policy in the UK. In particular, it explores the politics behind the competing goals set for cultural policy and how politicians negotiate the rival appeals of promoting excellence and enabling diversity, while still claiming to represent the people. It focuses upon two important New Labour pronouncements on cultural policy, Tessa Jowell's Government and the Value of Culture and Brian McMaster's Supporting Excellence in the Arts: From Measurement to Judgement. These both argue for making ‘excellence’, as opposed to ‘diversity’, the central value for cultural policy. Drawing on the arguments of Brian Barry, Bhikhu Parekh and Ronald Dworkin, the article looks at how ideas of diversity, excellence and the popular form part of contrasting political ideologies, values and practices, and at what is at stake in choosing between them.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Political, Social and International Studies Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Cultural Politics, Communications & Media Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Policy & Politics Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Centres > Centre for Competition Policy |
| Depositing User: | John Street |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Sep 2011 09:58 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Sep 2023 09:32 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/34880 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/10286632.2010.546839 |
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