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The Chameleon-like Complexion of Cultural Policy
Re-educating an Octogenarian
From: Accounting for Culture
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Cultural experiences have an impact on one’s general values, including diose related to politics. Thus culture affects, through one’s normative predilections, how one evaluates political phenomena and how one makes political choices, including voting decisions. These in turn determine the make up of governments and hence, as die feedback loop indicates, die stance taken by the state towards leisure culture, including the arts. The resulting cultural policies in turn have an impact on one’s values, and so on and on and on.
Contributors
John Meisel
John Meisel is the Sir Edward Peacock professor of political science emeritus at Queen’s University in Kingston. His first paper on cultural policy, “Political Culture and the Politics of Culture,” appeared in the Canadian Journal of Political Science in 1974. He has kept a watching brief on cultural policy ever since. In the early 1980s he was chair of the Canadian Radio Television Commission. In 2002 he was chosen as the first winner of the John Meisel Award for Excellence in Cultural Research. Contrary to appearances, it was not he who established the award.
