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Why privatize cultural industries? Why not privatize cultural industries? These questions have been frequently raised and widely discussed by scholars and administrators in western democracies throughout the 1980s and 1990s. The debate on privatization had no relevance in Hungary and other Central and Eastern European countries (CEEC) until the collapse of communist regimes in the region. Few of us dared to think that the almighty party-state would ever give up its strongholds in the cultural industries. Culture and politics formed Siamese twins and it seemed obvious that they could be detached only if dictatorship was phased out.
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Gálik, M. (1998). Who Laughs Last…. In: Boorsma, P.B., Van Hemel, A., Van Der Wielen, N. (eds) Privatization and Culture. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-5099-0_12
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