The political and intellectual landscape of instrumental museum policy - Cultural Trends
Abstract
What are some of the wider current political and intellectual factors that might have a bearing on instrumental museum policy? This article discusses how power, democratic deficit, elitism, the media and interpretation, trust between governments and governed, decentralization, devolution and audit, inspection and scrutiny, expert knowledge, evidence based policy making and knowledge transfer, the professions and the complexity of social phenomena can influence policy making for museums.