Authored by Annabelle Littoz-Monnet, 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. Understanding this process fills a crucial gap in European studies literature, shedding light on uncovered dynamics of European integration and EU policy formation.
The European Union and culture offers a fresh theoretical line in the field of European studies, pointing to the necessity of developing a dynamic multi-level approach, able to capture the continuous interaction over time between EU-level developments, national-level policies and the desire of all policy actors to further their interests and maximise their policy competencies. www.nbninternational.com

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