The European Union and culture : between economic regulation and European cultural policy / Annabelle Littoz-Monnet

By:

Littoz-Monnet, Annabelle

Series: European Policy Research Unit seriesPublication details: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2007Edition: 1rst edDescription: viii, 189 pISBN:

9780719074356

Summary: "The European Union and Culture" explains how and why the European Union has started to intervene in the cultural policy sector - understood here as the public policies aimed at supporting and regulating the arts and cultural industries. It is the first comprehensive and theoretically informed account of the Communitarisation process of the cultural policy sector. Understanding this process fills a crucial gap in the European studies literature, shedding light on uncovered dynamics of European integration and EU policy formation. Before 1992, no legal basis for EU intervention in the field of culture appeared in the Treaties. Member states were, in any case, reluctant to share their competences in a policy sector considered to be an area of national sovereignty. In such circumstances, how was the Communitarisation of the policy sector ever possible? Who were the policy actors that played a role in this process? What were their motives? And why were certain actors more influential than others? "The European Union and Culture" answers these questions by offering a fresh theoretical line in the field of European studies, pointing to the necessity of developing a dynamic multi-level approach, able to capture the continuous interaction over time between EU-level developments, national-level policies and the desire of all policy actors to further their interests and maximise their policy competencies. This book will be of great use to all researchers and students of European integration and European public policy and anyone interested in what happens 'behind the scene' of EU intervention in the field of cultural policy. (Font: Editor)

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Centre d' Informació i Documentació del CERC Sala	General	S 00617	1	Available		1900102665

Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- 1. Cultural policy as a contested area -- 2. Cultural policy at the heart of tensions between conflicting models of policy intervention -- 3. Cultural policy at the heart of tensions between governance levels -- 4. The Communitarisation of broadcasting regulation: the "Television without Frontiers" Diretive -- 5. The Europeanisation of the regulation of book markets: fixed price systems for books in the EU -- 6. The Communitarisation of copyright policies -- 7. Conclusion -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index

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