Finnish cultural policy as public funding: Regime view across policy domains

Jakonen, Olli; Sokka, Sakarias

doi:10.18261/nkt.25.3.9

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“…According to Paulsson and Macheridis (2022), who also concurs with Makhetha (2015) and Wu (2022), government policies are the result of a combination of systematic forces, political processes, institutional influences, rivalry among groups, elite preferences, belief in or advocacy of change through small steps, and rational planning (Fischer et al, 2015;Deygers and Vanbuel, 2022). Whatever decisions the government agrees on will fall under this (Kharel and Kharel, 2020;Jakonen and Sokka, 2022). Simeon (1976) concluded that policies are the climax of a complicated negotiation process and the outcome of several modest judgments made by decision-makers.…”

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Government policy: meaning, types, manifestations, theories, and policy cycles

Adeniran,

Muraina,

Ilugbami

et al. 2023

IRD

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In any democracy, it is strongly advised that effective policies be created since they are crucial to how democracies operate. Government policy definitions and categories were widened. Government policy types were discussed concerning the sectoral groups comprising each given government. This is important because a policy's or its objective elements frequently suggest different meanings for different stakeholders. Policymaking is a process impacted by socio-political and other factors and is not a governmental function. Thus, there is a need to comprehend the theoretical underpinnings on which government policymaking and its execution may be evaluated and characterized. According to the elite/mass hypothesis, there are two groups in society: those who occupy positions of power and those who do not. Government policy is more influenced by those with access to knowledge and influence. It is a remarkable characteristic of group theory which is ideally in line with the legislative because the legislatures are where the voices of the people are expressed. Governmental institutions and government policy are closely related, claims institutional theory. The rational choice theory may need to be more accurate since participants in government policy must have access to all information to make informed judgments. The systems theory offers a more straightforward method for categorizing and comprehending the contributions and interrelationships made by institutions and policy players, including the function played by the external environment in policy formulation. Lastly, since democracy is a system of governance built on extensive public engagement, any ideology that supports any type of citizen participation (particularly in a democracy) should be endorsed by both politicians and public officeholders.

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Section: Underpinnings Of Government Policymentioning

confidence: 94%

Government policy: meaning, types, manifestations, theories, and policy cycles

Adeniran,

Muraina,

Ilugbami

et al. 2023

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“…From the cultural policy perspective, cultural policy structure in Finland composes a rather stable, organised, and institutionalised system for the implementation of public policy (Jakonen and Sokka, 2022). At national level the structure of Finnish cultural policy consists of multiple government institutions, quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisations and interest organisations.…”

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“…At national level the structure of Finnish cultural policy consists of multiple government institutions, quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisations and interest organisations. The Ministry of Education and Culture (MEC) is responsible for the statutory art and cultural policy (see e.g., Kangas, 2001;Luonila et al, 2022, p. 48;Jakonen and Sokka, 2022). The state allocates subsidies to municipalities to produce cultural services with the aim of achieving a decentralisation of cultural policy implementation at the municipal level (Kangas, 2001, p. 65-66).…”

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Community resilience and cultural sustainability in two Finnish urban neighbourhoods

Luonila¹,

Kumpulainen

Leppänen³

et al. 2023

Front. Polit. Sci.

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This study explores how urban cultural environments, and particularly their cultural provision and forms of participation, can foster cultural sustainability in urban communities, namely neighbourhoods. Conceptually, the article situates cultural sustainability within the concept of community resilience to facilitate an understanding of the everyday lives of residents and concerns residents' expectations of the cultural environment and opportunities for cultural participation in two case neighbourhoods in Jyväskylä Finland. Drawing on the mixed-methods approach of the study our findings show that different cultural activities and communities can be central to promoting sustainable urban development. Community resilience as a sense of belonging like neighbourhood-related identity and also as a sense of ownership of place seems strong in various ways, and relation to the cultural participation can be identified. However, from urban cultural policy perspective, the low-threshold participation and opportunities for grassroots cultural activity seem an underexploited resource in the cities, especially when the concept of sustainability is under consideration. Moreover, the negotiation and communication between community actors and public officials deserves a lot of attention while the implementation of urban cultural policy is on focus. From urban cultural policy perspective, it is important to find new ways to measure the direct and indirect impacts of policies. According to findings of the study holistic analysis of residents, actors and institutions viewpoints helps us to understand the practises and processes related to community resilience. All this deserves multidisciplinary research and joint reflection. This approach assists to make sense of how urban cultural policy and cultural participation can support community resilience at community level.

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“…These characteristics of Finnish cultural policy and funding have enabled professional artists and their organizations to have a relatively strong and influential position in cultural governance (Häyrynen 2018;Kangas 2003). However, this situation has recently been challenged by several factors: 1) the creative economy discourse in cultural policy emphasizing the economic importance of culture; 2) the entrepreneurialization of cultural work and its subjects; 3) institutional arrangements diminishing the autonomy of arts councils and increasing emphasis on strategic cultural policy; 4) the crisis management of the COVID-19 pandemic highlight the entrepreneurial and business side of cultural work (Jakonen & Pyykkönen 2023). All in all, based on these factors, it can be claimed that the power relations of different institutions in the field of culture are in the constant flux, and the 'economization' of culture seems to be strong tide at the moment (e.g., Hylland et al 2024;Jakonen & Pyykkönen 2023;Luonila et al 2022).…”

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Institutional Hybridity in Networked Cultural Organizations through Boundary Work

Haapakorpi,

Kolehmainen,

Jousmäki

et al. 2024

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The article studies the impacts of the pandemic caused by the COVID-19 virus on cultural festival organizations in Finland. Festivals have been institutionalized as network organizations, which presumes boundary work with partner organizations from different institutional fields. The organizational pattern of cultural festivals is studied qualitatively by applying institutional theory and particularly the perspective of hybridity due to the network pattern of festival organization.The institutionalization of cultural festivals promoted stability and guaranteed economic support during the pandemic, although the organizations had to run down most of their events. The small-scale impacts were the changes in the network structures and related reshaping of the programs.

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Finnish cultural policy as public funding: Regime view across policy domains

Abstract: Sakarias Sokka works as a senior researcher at CUPORE. His research interests include history and institutionalization of cultural policy, theoretical approaches to cultural policy, participation in culture, governing and governance of culture, art policies, and art and culture funding.

Cited by 6 publications

References 34 publications

Government policy: meaning, types, manifestations, theories, and policy cycles

Government policy: meaning, types, manifestations, theories, and policy cycles

Community resilience and cultural sustainability in two Finnish urban neighbourhoods

Institutional Hybridity in Networked Cultural Organizations through Boundary Work

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