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Developing the Creative Sector: A Comparitive Study of U.K. and U.S. Creative Industry Policies

Chodoff, Rebekah B.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1391782643

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2004, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, Arts Policy and Administration.
This study compares the public policies for creative sector development in the United States and the United Kingdom and considers the implications for policy transfer from one model to the other. The thesis asks the question: how does the UK approach to creative sector development differ from the US approach and what elements from the UK model can be applied in the U.S.? The study examines creative sector policy in the UK since the beginning of Prime Minster Blair’s administration in 1997 to the present and follows US policies from approximately that same time period. The findings of the study demonstrate that the UK government is taking a sectoral approach to management of the arts, culture and entertainment industries in which a central agency has oversight for all fields in which the principal product is based in creative expression. This model was adopted in response to economic factors that indicated that creative industries are a growing segment of the UK economy with potential for revenue generation and job creation. In contrast, the US model takes a less centralized approach under which the non-profit and commercial segments of the creative industries remain largely separate, creative media are addressed discretely rather than as a greater sector, and policy making relating to the creative industries happens minimal cohesion between levels of government. In surveying the basic characteristics of the UK and US creative sectors, there are notable similarities, which indicate that adoption of the UK’s approach could be beneficial to the US. While the construction of the government in each country is different enough to make a direct transfer of the entire body of UK creative sector policy unfeasible, the ideas and attitudes toward the creative sector could be transferred to the US to provide a foundation for a new, more centralized approach to creative sector development policies. The purpose of the study is to address the core policy ideas out of the UK and develop a proposition of how the US might adopt a sectoral approach to the creative industries. Furthermore, the study proposes some initial actions that might provide a foundation for creative sector policy reform in the US.
Margaret Wyszomirski (Advisor)
Wayne Lawson (Committee Member)
107 p.
Arts Management

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  • Chodoff, R. B. (2004). Developing the Creative Sector: A Comparitive Study of U.K. and U.S. Creative Industry Policies [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1391782643

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Chodoff, Rebekah. Developing the Creative Sector: A Comparitive Study of U.K. and U.S. Creative Industry Policies. 2004. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1391782643.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Chodoff, Rebekah. "Developing the Creative Sector: A Comparitive Study of U.K. and U.S. Creative Industry Policies." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1391782643

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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