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The Politics of Cultural Statistics: from Legitimisation to Critique (France 1960–1990)

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Making Culture Count

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The production and utilisation of statistics on cultural audiences and practices has been a matter of public cultural policy in France since the early days of this policy in the 1960s. When they are not directly produced in-house, cultural statistics are generally commissioned by the Ministry of Culture or public cultural institutions. Most importantly, cultural statistics relate to a founding principle of public cultural policy, as they enable the measurement of cultural democratisation — regardless of what the generic term ‘democratisation’ is supposed to mean precisely (Donnat 1991).

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Dubois, V. (2015). The Politics of Cultural Statistics: from Legitimisation to Critique (France 1960–1990). In: MacDowall, L., Badham, M., Blomkamp, E., Dunphy, K. (eds) Making Culture Count. New Directions in Cultural Policy Research. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-46458-3_4

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