Development of a Model for Comparative Study of Cultural Policies of Iran and Australia

Document Type : Original Article

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1 PhD Student, Research and Science Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran

2 Associate Professor, Research and Science Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran

3 Assistant Professor, Research and Science Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran

Abstract

Cultural policy is a category of strategic significance which includes written and unwritten principles that are defined for attaining the goals of sustainable cultural development. Descriptive and comparative-analytical methods were used through which in the first stage, six component and 24 indexes of cultural policy were extracted from the literature and theoretical principles and then through interview with five members of the Delphi panel of Iranian cultural elites, the validity and reliability of the cultural components and indices were confirmed and then the conceptual model was developed on the basis of Kraft and Furlong process model and its validity was approved by Lavsheh method.  
In the second stage, the similarities and differences between Iranian and Australian cultural policies were garnered by determining the degree of the final membership of each of the cultural policy components and indices in the Fuzzy sets by acquiring the viewpoints of five cultural elites from Iran and five from Australia with the help of MATLAB software.
The findings indicate that there are similarities between the cultural policies of the two countries regarding the following indexes: Prioritization of cultural problems, adoption of cultural policy, and legislation of cultural policy in the Parliament or cultural policymaking institutions; but there are differences regarding other indexes and components. It may be concluded that given the higher degree of final membership of Australia, the degree of significance given by Australia to the processes of agenda setting, formation, approval, execution, evaluation and feedback of cultural policy is higher than those of Iran and the dominant approach to cultural policies in Australia is a group approach while that of Iran is a political and institutional one.

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Strategy for Culture
Volume 12, Issue 45
June 2019
Pages 187-222

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