Between Policies and Practices: Administration Matters

In this chapter the authors outline an analytical framework which acknowledges the potential disconnection between policies and practices in cultural policies. While leaving aside the hyper-complexity of models introduced by policy implementation studies, the framework aims to immediately focus on three different levels of consistency for the analysis of cultural policies at the micro level. First, it focuses on the policy statement phase (a main topic of cultural policies studies), then on the enactment phase (a main topic of policy implementation research), and finally on the evaluation of results (partly considered by public management scholars), with the aim to recouple the three different and separated approaches.