This report documents the extent and types of public support for a wide range of arts and cultural activities in Austalia. As this report shows, there is a diversity of funding arrangements and patterns of support for these purposes in the Commonwealth and the State/Territory governments. Such a diversity is to be expected in a federal system. This compilation of financial statistics is a continuation of a series begun by the Australia Council; the previous report Cultural Funding in Australia 1992-93 was published in 1994.

who has property rights to the presentation of cultural material? How does this payer call the tune the piper plays, to what audience interpretation? (from abstract)

Yet how does a volunteer organization of art educators develop national policy and follow up with efforts to implement such a policy? In this article, a group of art educators who have been instrumental in forging art education policy through the Canadian Society for Education through Art (CSEA) share an account of the influences and decisions that have shaped the development of art education policy in Canada. Although all the article's authors currently teach in the art education program at the University of British Columbia, they have also been involved with CSEA for many years. F. Graeme

This report concerns the work of 39 organizations that reported exchanges and training which in fiscal year 1995 included more than 130, 167,000 participants, and $1.6 billion in federal funding. In providing a descriptive inventory of these programs, the report contains foreign area summaries and individual country profiles with related data breakouts. (Introduction, p. 1-2)

As tracing the case of the Israeli government's involvement in the arts has revealed, art patronage is a living process. Focusing only on the organizational structure of government involvement in the arts, therefore, is not always sufficient for the understanding of this process. In fact, it is often misleading. Behind what seems to be a rather supportive organizational structure for government involvement in the arts in Israel there is a reality of constant government regulation of the arts, combined, as strange as it may sound, with a rather high degree of government indifference. It is a

In this article I will explore one aspect of the information-futures scenarios. Specifically I will examine the nature of the global knowledge-based economy with respect to differences in intellectual property traditions among the four principal neighborhoods of the global village.
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Review by William Glade of the book The Arts in the World Economy: Public Policy and Private Philanthropy for a Global Cultural Community [Hanover, NH: University Press of New England (for the Salzburg Seminar), 1994. 175 p.].

The author introduces the three papers which comprise the issue on Political culture and cultural policy:

The term welfare state refers to a broad variety of government activities that aim at influencing society and the economy in order to reduce social injustice and improve opportunities for participation in social and political life.... More recently, public patronage of the arts seems also to have become a part of the expected range of services among modern welfare states.