ABSTRACT
There has been a dramatic resurgence of investment in policy-relevant research and information in the field of cultural policy. This chapter discusses several cases, and extracts the major themes, conclusions, and findings that emerge from those detailed discussions with an eye toward generalizing beyond the individual cases. It is useful and informative to contrast the development of cultural policy research within ministries of culture to its development within arts councils, whose relationship to government is typically at arm's length. In some countries, the division of labor in cultural policy research is still being worked out. The resurgence of cultural policy research has contributed to the evolving interest in cultural policy as a field of academic inquiry. One of the most interesting themes that echoes across these countries is the recognition that it is not so much the shortage of data that should command one's attention; rather, it is the lack of use of those data that needs to be addressed.
