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Framing discourse : language, meaning and knowledge in public cultural policy making in Germany
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Ludley, Maike (2023) Framing discourse : language, meaning and knowledge in public cultural policy making in Germany. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.
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Abstract
My thesis explores an actor centred approach to gain a holistic understanding of how actors manoeuvre within a complex web of meanings that makes up the cultural policy field. The project explores the value of interpretative policy analysis to understand public cultural policy making and analyses the community of
cultural policy actors and how they relate to each other within the political sphere.
In 2014, North-Rhine Westphalia became the first federal state in Germany to pass a Law on the Support and Promotion of Culture (German: “Kulturfördergesetz”). The case is peculiar as some political actors celebrate the law as the first of its kind, while others dispute its legal value. This raises questions about factors that
encouraged the emergence and development of this policy at this time and place.
The thesis traces the idea for a Law on the Support and Promotion of Culture and tells the story of how it was formed and eventually passed by the parliament of North-Rhine Westphalia. It pays attention to how the policy issue(s) were framed over time, as well as whose voices were heard during the participatory process. Further the thesis examines how actors understand policy terms and how the multiplicity of meanings shapes the field. The project explores the community of cultural policy actors and how they relate to other actors in the political sphere.
The research project tests an interpretative, multiple-method approach by applying it to a single in-depth case study to understand how ‘culture’ was turned into policy. By using multiple approaches to the same subject, I identify different
dimensions of the policy making process and gain insights into how ‘culture’
functions as a public policy field in Germany. I argue that focusing on meanings and taking into account the ambiguity of ‘culture’ in the policy sphere can provide a better and a more realistic understanding of cultural policy making overall.
Item Type: | Thesis (PhD) | ||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) |
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Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Germany -- Cultural policy -- 21st century, Government policy -- Germany, Cultural policy -- Law and legislation -- Germany | ||||
Official Date: | March 2023 | ||||
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Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||
Theses Department: | Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies | ||||
Thesis Type: | PhD | ||||
Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||
Supervisor(s)/Advisor: | Gray, Clive | ||||
Sponsors: | University of Warwick. Centre for Arts Doctoral Research Excellence | ||||
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Extent: | 298 pages : illustrations | ||||
Language: | eng |
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