Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. List of Tables and Figures 7
4. Acknowledgements 9
5. An Introduction to Cultural Policy in the Polder 11
6. A Well-Balanced Cultural Policy. An Interview with Minister of Culture Ingrid van Engelshoven 37
7. 1. Legal Aspects of Cultural Policy 41
8. 2. An International Perspective on Dutch Cultural Policy 67
9. ‘A Subsidy to Make a Significant Step Upwards’. An Interview with Arjo Klingens 85
10. 3. The Framing Game. Towards Deprovincialising Dutch Cultural Policy 89
11. 4. Values in Cultural Policymaking. Political Values and Policy Advice 107
12. An Exercise in Undogmatic Thinking. An Interview with Gable Roelofsen 131
13. 5. Towards a Cultural Policy of Trust. The Dutch Approach from the Perspective of a Transnational Civil Domain 133
14. 6. Dutch Media Policy. Towards the End of Reflective Diversity? 151
15. ‘A More Holistic Approach to Problems’. An Interview with Hans Poll and Jacqueline Roelofs 165
16. 7. Cultural Education Policy. Its Justification and Organisation 169
17. 8. Culture for Everyone. The Value and Feasibility of Stimulating Cultural Participation 195
18. ‘A Strong Field Needs Variation and Experimentation’. An Interview with Saskia Bak 215
19. 9. The People’s Palaces. Public Libraries in the Information Society 219
20. 10. Cultural Policy at a Crossroads? How the Matthew Effect, New Sociocultural Oppositions and Digitalisation Challenge Dutch National Cultural Policy 243
21. ‘Production is Preceded by Talent Development’. An Interview with Sandra den Hamer 265
22. Epilogue: A Systemic View of Dutch Cultural Policy in the Next 25 Years 269
23. Overview of Dutch Ministers of / Secretaries for Culture and their most important cultural policy documents 287
24. Appendix. Facts and Figures on Culture and Cultural Policy in the Netherlands 291
25. Authors’ Biographies 315
26. Index 319