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Michael Rushton

Professor Emeritus

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Email:
mirushto@iu.edu
Research areas:
Civil Society Civic Engagement and Volunteering
Cultural Policy and Arts Administration
Local Governance
Nonprofit Management and Philanthropy
Public Finance and Economics
Areas of Interest:
Cultural economics, policy and administration
Arts policy and moral philosophy

Education

  • Ph.D. University of British Columbia, 1990
  • M.A., University of Western Ontario, 1981
  • B.A., University of British Columbia, 1980

Courses

  • Cultural Planning and Urban Development
  • Financial Management for the Arts
  • Legal Aspects of the Arts
  • Arts Organizations in the Public and Private Sectors
  • Economics and Administration of Artistic Organizations
  • Public Policy and the Arts
  • Art Worlds: Management, Markets and Policy

Biography

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Curriculum Vitae

As a professor, Dr. Michael Rushton’s expertise and teaching is in the economics, management, and public policy of the arts. His publications include articles on such topics as public funding for the arts, the role of nonprofit organizations, taxation, copyright, freedom of expression, and the arts and local development. He is the editor of Creative Communities: Art Works in Economic Development (2013) and the author of Strategic Pricing for the Arts (2014) and The Moral Foundations of Public Funding for the Arts (2023).

Before joining Indiana University in 2006, he held faculty positions in Canada, the U.S., and Australia, and served as a senior policy advisor to the government of the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. At Indiana University, he has served as director of strategic planning, and associate vice president for university academic affairs.



Highlights

  • Co-Director, Center for Cultural Affairs
  • Visiting Lecturer at University of Chicago, and Freiberg University (Germany)
  • Past Director of Strategic Planning and Associate Vice President for University Academic Affairs, Indiana University
  • Senior Policy Analyst for the Government of Saskatchewan
  • Co-editor of the Journal of Cultural Economics
  • O'Neill Excellence in Teaching Award (2009), Indiana University

Selected Works

  • “The Pursuit of Equality Through Public Funding for the Arts,” Innovating Institutions and Inequities in the Arts, (Joanna Woronkowicz, Douglas Noonan, eds.), London: Palgrave Macmillan, (2024)
  • The Moral Foundations of Public Funding for the Arts, Palgrave Macmillan, (2023)
  • “The Claims of Politics on the Arts? Oakeshott and Scrutiny in the 1930s,”Journal of Aesthetic Education, 55(4): 60-69 (2021).
  • “Performance Measurement as Policy Rhetoric: The Case of Federal Arts Councils,” (with J. Woronkowicz and T. M. Rabovsky), International Journal of Cultural Policy, 25(3): 363-76 (2019).
  • “Why do we Subsidize Donations to the Opera?”Cultural Trends, 27(3): 160-72 (2018).
  • “Should Public and Nonprofit Museums Have Free Admission? A Defense of the Membership Model,” Museum Management and Curatorship, 32(3): 200-209 (2017)
  • Strategic Pricing for the Arts, New York: Routledge (2014)
  • Creative Communities: Art Works in Economic Development, (Editor) Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, (2013)
  • “Hybrid Organizations in the Arts: A Cautionary View,” Journal of Arts Management, Law, and Society 44(3): 145-52 (2014)
  • “A note on the use and misuse of the racial diversity index,” Policy Studies Journal, 36(3): 445-459 (2008)
  • “Understanding state spending on the arts: 1976-1999,” (with G. B. Lewis), State and Local Government Review,39 (2): 107-114 (2007)
  • “Support for earmarked public spending on culture: Evidence from a referendum in metropolitan Detroit,” Public Budgeting and Finance,25 (4): 72-85 (2005)

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  • Center for Cultural Affairs
  • Arm's Length: Substack on cultural policy past and present
  • "For What It's Worth," Arts Journal Blog

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