Our Work Media and Culture Arts Funding: A new approach
| Arts Funding: A new approach |
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| Written by David Rawcliffe (March 2010) |
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Government support for the arts is currently provided as a subsidy to producers. This system suffers from four major problems: it relies on an expensive bureaucracy; it distributes subsidies unequally between regions and income groups; it distorts producers’ incentives through corruption, politicisation and arbitrary criteria; and it reduces competition, innovation and efficiency. This paper proposes a new system for arts funding: consumer-side subsidies delivered as vouchers to all citizens, which would alleviate the four problems outlined above, and better fulfil the central objectives of art funding. |
Report topics
| Tax & Economy |
| Education Policy |
| Health Policy |
| Justice & Civil Liberties |
| Welfare & Pensions |
| Regulation & Industry |
| Politics & Government |
| Environment & Transport |
| Media & Culture |
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