Jim McGuigan discusses cultural policy as a manifestation of cultural politics in the widest sense. Illustrating his case with examples from recent cultural pol

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Festivals and the Cultural Public Sphere provides the first major social scientific study of these festivals in the wake of their explosion in popularity over t

Explains the social science of cultural sociology, a study of the ways in which culture, society, politics, and economy interact in the world.

Communism's Public Sphere explores the political role of cultural spaces in the Eastern Bloc. Under communist regimes that banned free speech, political discuss