The Politics of Cultural Oversight: The Reauthorization Process and the National Endowment for the Arts

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Research Abstract
The Politics of Cultural Oversight: The Reauthorization Process and the National Endowment for the Arts

[The author], working with a team of research students, leads us through six sets of congressional hearings that have been held to consider, first, life for the Arts Endowment and subsequently, its renewal. He emphasizes the importance of the congressional subcommittee and of its chairman, the holder of hearings, the floor manager of legislation should hearings result in a proposed new law, or an amendment or extension of change thereof. He succinctly summarizes almost 8,000 pages of testimony (in the small type of congressional documents) and the views expressed by more than 220 witnesses. He studies their composition and backgrounds, and he enumerates for us the most prevalent questions asked and those that continue to defy one firm or definite answer - just as the title of this monograph poses a question that might be answered negatively, or affirmatively, or somewhere in between. (General introduction, p. 2-3).

CONTENTS
Cultural subgovernment.
Arts policy issues.
Overview and oversight.
Notes [bibliography].

[The author], working with a team of research students, leads us through six sets of congressional hearings that have been held to consider, first, life for the Arts Endowment and subsequently, its renewal. He emphasizes the importance of the congressional subcommittee and of its chairman, the holder of hearings, the floor manager of legislation should hearings result in a proposed new law, or an amendment or extension of change thereof.
BIBLIOGRAPHY

Book
Mulcahy, Kevin V.
0-915400-62-6 (p)
December, 1987
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Americans for the Arts
1000 Vermont Ave., NW 6th Floor
Washington
DC, 20005
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