Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- Acknowledgements
- An Introduction to Cultural Policy in the Polder
- A Well-Balanced Cultural Policy: An Interview with Minister of Culture Ingrid van Engelshoven
- 1 Legal Aspects of Cultural Policy
- 2 An International Perspective on Dutch Cultural Policy
- ‘A Subsidy to Make a Significant Step Upwards’: An Interview with Arjo Klingens
- 3 The Framing Game: Towards Deprovincialising Dutch Cultural Policy
- 4 Values in Cultural Policymaking: Political Values and Policy Advice
- An Exercise in Undogmatic Thinking: An Interview with Gable Roelofsen
- 5 Towards a Cultural Policy of Trust: The Dutch Approach from the Perspective of a Transnational Civil Domain
- 6 Dutch Media Policy: Towards the End of Reflective Diversity?
- ‘A More Holistic Approach to Problems’: An Interview with Hans Poll and Jacqueline Roelofs
- 7 Cultural Education Policy: Its Justification and Organisation
- 8 Culture for Everyone: The Value and Feasibility of Stimulating Cultural Participation
- ‘A Strong Field Needs Variation and Experimentation’: An Interview with Saskia Bak
- 9 The People's Palaces: Public Libraries in the Information Society
- 10 Cultural Policy at a Crossroads?: How the Matthew Effect, New Sociocultural Oppositions and Digitalisation Challenge Dutch National Cultural Policy
- ‘Production is Preceded by Talent Development’: An Interview with Sandra den Hamer
- Epilogue: A Systemic View of Dutch Cultural Policy in the Next 25 Years
- Overview of Dutch Ministers of / Secretaries for Culture and their most important Cultural Policy Documents
- Appendix: Facts and Figures on Culture and Cultural Policy in the Netherlands
- Authors’ Biographies
- Index
Epilogue: A Systemic View of Dutch Cultural Policy in the Next 25 Years
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 December 2020
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- Acknowledgements
- An Introduction to Cultural Policy in the Polder
- A Well-Balanced Cultural Policy: An Interview with Minister of Culture Ingrid van Engelshoven
- 1 Legal Aspects of Cultural Policy
- 2 An International Perspective on Dutch Cultural Policy
- ‘A Subsidy to Make a Significant Step Upwards’: An Interview with Arjo Klingens
- 3 The Framing Game: Towards Deprovincialising Dutch Cultural Policy
- 4 Values in Cultural Policymaking: Political Values and Policy Advice
- An Exercise in Undogmatic Thinking: An Interview with Gable Roelofsen
- 5 Towards a Cultural Policy of Trust: The Dutch Approach from the Perspective of a Transnational Civil Domain
- 6 Dutch Media Policy: Towards the End of Reflective Diversity?
- ‘A More Holistic Approach to Problems’: An Interview with Hans Poll and Jacqueline Roelofs
- 7 Cultural Education Policy: Its Justification and Organisation
- 8 Culture for Everyone: The Value and Feasibility of Stimulating Cultural Participation
- ‘A Strong Field Needs Variation and Experimentation’: An Interview with Saskia Bak
- 9 The People's Palaces: Public Libraries in the Information Society
- 10 Cultural Policy at a Crossroads?: How the Matthew Effect, New Sociocultural Oppositions and Digitalisation Challenge Dutch National Cultural Policy
- ‘Production is Preceded by Talent Development’: An Interview with Sandra den Hamer
- Epilogue: A Systemic View of Dutch Cultural Policy in the Next 25 Years
- Overview of Dutch Ministers of / Secretaries for Culture and their most important Cultural Policy Documents
- Appendix: Facts and Figures on Culture and Cultural Policy in the Netherlands
- Authors’ Biographies
- Index
Summary
In this volume, a number of scholars from various Dutch universities and research institutions have shed their light on the past quarter century of the Dutch cultural policy system. This book as a whole, however, is not intended to be a historical overview. On the contrary, the book looks forwards with the aim of discovering the directions the Dutch cultural policy system might need to take in the coming decades. In this epilogue, we will take a step back and give ourselves free reign to use the insights brought to light in this book to dwell on Dutch cultural policy in the next 25 years. If anything, the analyses in the preceding chapters have revealed that Dutch cultural policy is very systematic: it developed into an intricate system with particular roles for policy agents and particular subsidy regimes for different types of cultural institutions. For example, there is the Basic Infrastructure for those institutions deemed indispensable to Dutch culture, the funds supporting the more experimental producers of culture, a different subsidy scheme for enhancing audience reach, and a specific budget for international cultural policy. Dutch cultural policy can truly be described as a system. Therefore, in this epilogue we will use a systems theory perspective as a guiding framework. Luhmann (1984) describes how social systems evolve as a consequence of the process of functional differentiation in society. Each system that evolves deals with a particular issue, solving a particular societal problem. Luhmann refers to this as the function of social systems for society as a whole. In order to do so, each system develops its own internal logics and adjusts its internal operations to pressures from the environment as it sees fit.
We first revisit the question of why the cultural policy system developed. What was it designed for, and what are its benefits? These benefits tell us something about the societal function of the cultural policy system. Using the insights of the different chapters in this book, we will then describe in sections 2 and 3 of this epilogue some of the internal logics of the cultural policy system that became apparent as it developed over time, and how it reacted to pressures from the political and economic environment. Section 4 takes a more topical perspective, focusing on the most recent cultural policy document of the current Minister of Culture, Ingrid van Engelshoven (Ministerie OCW 2018).
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- Cultural Policy in the Polder25 Years Dutch Cultural Policy Act, pp. 269 - 286Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2018