Mangset - The Arm’s Length Principle and the Art Funding System
Mangset, P. (2009). The Arm’s Length Principle and the Art Funding System: A ComparativeApproach. In: Miikka Pyykkönen, Niina Simanainen & Sakarias Sokka (Eds.) What About Cultural Policy? Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Culture and Politics, (273-297). Helsinki: Minerva. ISBN 978-952-492-320-0
The paper discusses the arm’s length principle as a cultural policy instrument for defending artistic autonomy. It discusses how the arm’s length principle has been discussed and implemented (or not implemented) in different the cultural policies of countries, especially the UK (especially England) and Norway, but also in France and the other Nordic countries. The paper demonstrates how the arm’s length principle has been adapted and interpreted quite differently in different countries according to the specific historical and political traditions of these countries. The paper also illustrates the gap/ambivalence between the concrete political implementation of the arm’s length principle and the rhetoric use of it.
Per Mangset “The Arm’s Length Principle and the Art Funding System: A Comparative Approach”