Author: Montias, John Michael

Publication Year: 1981

Media Type: Report

Summary:

The author analyzes data on the financing of the performing arts in Western Europe and the in both nonprofit and private organizations and concludes that total per capita government support is much greater in continental Western Europe than in Great Britain or the , even when the financial statistics include capital outlay and indirect government expenditures.

Abstract:

The author analyzes data on the financing of the performing arts in Western Europe and the in both nonprofit and private organizations and concludes that total per capita government support is much greater in continental Western Europe than in Great Britain or the , even when the financial statistics include capital outlay and indirect government expenditures.

The paper is divided into three parts. In the first, I summarize the divergent histories of public support for the performing arts in continental Western Europe and the ; in the second I assemble statistics on the organization and the financing of theater, opera, concert, and ballet organizations in the 1970's in both parts of the world; in the third I analyze the theoretical behavior of a non-profit organization producing elite and popular shows in competition with a private-proprietary sector producing only popular shows. The chief purpose of the modeling exercise, the technical details of which are relegated to an appendix, is to show the consequences of increased levels of subsidies on the choices made by the manager of this hypothetical NPO between the two types of shows. (p. 2).

CONTENTS
1. Historical survey.
2. A statistical overview of the contemporary organization and financing of the
    performing arts.
3. A retrospective analysis.

Appendix: On the behavior of an NPO competing with private enterprises in the
                performing arts.
Includes footnotes [bibliography].

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Categories: Economic Impact