Chris Mathieu is Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology at Lund University, Sweden. His research is primarily in the fields of the sociology of work and organisations, and the sociology of the arts, especially where these fields intersect. He has studies and written on film production, film schools, film institutes, and photography, as well as jury-based prize allocation processes at film festivals. He is the editor of Careers in Creative Industries (Routledge) and is Coordinator of the European Sociological Association's Research Network 02 (RN02) on the Sociology of the Arts.

Valerie Visanich is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Malta. She is one of the authors of Malta's National Cultural Policy (2020-2025) and the co-founder of the Malta Sociological Association. Valerie held the position of coordinator of Research Network Sociology of the Arts (RN02) within the European Sociological Association (ESA), between 2017-2019, to which she is currently a board member. She is the author of Education, Individualization and Neoliberalism, Youth in Southern Europe. Her research interests are within the field of Sociology of the Arts, Cultural Policy, Generational studies, and Sociology of Emotions.

Chapter 1: Accomplishing Cultural Policy in Europe: connections and illustrations

Chris Mathieu and Valerie Visanich

Section 1: The commercialization of culture and counter-reactions

Chapter 2: Cultural policies in Madrid and Barcelona during the "governments of change" (2015-2019): Towards a post-creative city?

Mariano Martín Zamorano

Chapter 3: The rise and fall of cultural and creative industries policy in Sweden

Katja Lindqvist

Chapter 4: Emerging rationalities in urban cultural policy making processes: challenging market-centred cultural policy in the city of Barcelona

Victoria Sánchez Belando and Matias Zarlenga

Section 2: Processes for social inclusion in cultural policies

Chapter 5: Crisis as change: new paradigms in cultural policy. The case of Greece.

Olga Kolokytha

Chapter 6: Sounds of a Porte Ouverte: How Cultural Policies Encounter Musical Diversity in Southeastern France

Aleysia Whitmore

Chapter 7: Mainstreaming Ageing in Austrian Cultural Organisations and Cultural Policy

Vera Gallistl, Gerhard Geiger and Tasos Zembylas

Section 3: Follow the money? The politics and effects of arts funding

Chapter 8: Comparative study of European policies for ethical fundraising in museums

Marie Ballarini and Marek Prokupek

Chapter 9: On subject's side: negotiation of objectives and urban imaginaries in two community projects in the island of Malta

Virginia Monteforte

Chapter 10: Developments in visual arts policy: grant distributions, applicants' characteristics, types of art, and legitimations for grant money in Flanders (Belgium), 1965-2015

Julia Peters and Henk Roose

Section 4: Good governance and vested interests in cultural policies

Chapter 11: The German theatre system and the limited impact of cultural policy on governance and management of public theatres

Thomas Schmidt

Chapter 12: Artistic quality in the audit society

Sigrid Røyseng