Cultural policies in southern Europe after the global crisis: Its impact on cultural participation

Abstract

The last third of the 20th century marked the beginning of a process of convergence in the formulation and implementation of the cultural policies of the countries of southern Europe with respect to the north. However, the global crisis has led to a decline in the indicators of cultural participation, breaking the trend of Europeanization of this public policy. From a comparative perspective, we analyse how the institutional density of non-formal artistic education, the formal educational system and the type of governance of cultural facilities determine, in addition to public cuts in culture, the greatest fall in cultural participation in the southern European cultural policy model in relation to the liberal, nordic and central European models.