The European Union and Culture

The European Union and culture explains why and how the European Union has started to intervene in the cultural policy sector - understood here as the public policies aimed at supporting and regulating the arts and cultural industries. It is the first comprehensive and theoretically informed account of the Communitarisation process of the cultural policy sector. Before 1992, no legal basis for EU intervention in the field of culture appeared in the Treaties. Member states were, in any case, reluctant to share their competences in a policy sector considered to be an area of national sovereignty. In such circumstances, how was the Communitarisation of the policy sector ever possible? Who were the policy actors that played a role in this process? What were their motives? And why were certain actors more influential than others? This book will be of great use to all researchers and students of European integration and European public policy.

ISBN 0719074355   Pages 200 ISBN13 9780719074356 (What's this?)   Volumes 001 Publisher Manchester University Press   Weight (grammes) 458 Imprint Manchester University Press   Published in Manchester Format Hardback   Series title European Policy Studies Series Publication date 01 Apr 2007   Height (mm) 234 Library of Congress HC21   Width (mm) 156 DEWEY 341.2422   Spine width (mm) 21 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate

1		Cultural policy as a contested area		1
2		Cultural policy at the heart of tensions between conflicting models of policy intervention		20
3		Cultural policy at the heart of tensions between governance levels		37
4		The Communitarisation of broad casting regulation: the 'Television without Frontiers' Directive		71
5		The Europeanisation of the regulation of book markers: fixed price systems for books in the EU		101
6		The Communitarisation of copyright policies		120
7		Conclusion		151
		Appendices		160
		Bibliography		165
		Index		181

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