ABSTRACT
This chapter highlights the interactions between the cultural administration and the Koalition as a transdisciplinary collaborative policymaking process amongst Berlin's cultural stakeholders, and seeks to contribute to the understudied phenomenon of what role artists or artist-led organizations play in cultural policymaking processes or cultural governance. It argues that exchanges of various resources between the artist organization, Koalition, and the cultural administration led to the construction of a concrete policy outcome, which created a new policy network. Moreover, the construction of a new policy community and resulting policymaking practice, links to the idea of the institutional void, which assumes that 'there are no clear rules and norms according to which politics is to be conducted and policy measures are to be agreed upon'. The chapter sketches explanatory factors of how and why a new policy network in Berlin's cultural policymaking context came into existence through the CityTax15 process.
