Culture - here, there, everywhere? Evaluating the allocation of three European cultural institutes around the world.

Autor/inn/en	Treutlein, Daniela; Schneider, Gerald
Titel	Culture - here, there, everywhere? Evaluating the allocation of three European cultural institutes around the world. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Kultur - hier und dort und überall? Evaluation der weltweiten Standorte dreier europäischer Kulturinstitute.
Quelle	Konstanz (2007), 31 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Tabellen 4; grafische Darstellungen 2
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Kultur; Kulturpolitik; Sprache; Sprachförderung; Sprachunterricht; Außenpolitik; Kulturelle Einrichtung; Goethe-Institut; Deutschland; Frankreich
Abstract	"This article examines the two-fold location decisions that Germany, France, and the United Kingdom have made for their foreign cultural diplomacy. We analyze first whether other motives than the promotion of the national language abroad determine the worldwide distribution of cultural institutes. In a second step, we contrast two explanations of agent discretion and foreign cultural policy making and argue that the misallocation of personnel across the globe is due to a collusion of interests between the responsible foreign ministries and the cultural institutes rather than due to the varying formal autonomy granted to these 'cultural embassies.' The collusion model, which we derive from the principal-agent literature in economics, lets us expect that agent preferences in the form of tourist considerations matter most for the least autonomous cultural agent and least for the institute enjoying considerable institutional autonomy. Heckman selection models strongly support this conjecture." (author's abstract).
Erfasst von	GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Mannheim
Update	2008/2