Faculty: Michael Rushton
Selected Works:
Reports and Publications:
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)
Reports and Publications:
- “Michael Oakeshott, Scrutiny, and the Claims of Politics,” Journal of Aesthetic Education, (December 2021)
- “Artists’ Rights” and “Pricing the Arts,” A Handbook of Cultural Economics, Third Edition, Edward Elgar (2020)
- "Creative Industries in the United States: Programme and Policy Evaluation in the Arts," (with J. Woronkowicz), Cultural Trends, 28 (5): 352-353 (2019)
- “U.S. Trends in Arts Attendance and Literary reading: 2002-2017: A First Look at Results from the 2017 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts” by the National Endowment for the Arts," Cultural Trends, 28 (1): 75-76 (2019)
- Book review: "The Creative Wealth of Nations: Can the Arts Advance Development?” by Patrick Kabanda, Cultural Trends, 27 (4): 306-307 (2018)
- Book review: "“The Origins of the Arts Council Movement: Philanthropy and Policy” by Anna Rosser Upchurch, Journal of Arts Management, Law & Society, 47 (3): 205-206 (2017)
- “Tax Incentives for the Creative Industries,” (edited by Sigrid Hemels and Kazuko Goto), Journal of Cultural Economics, (4) 489-91, (2017)
- “Subsidizing Culture: Taxpayer Enrichment of the Creative Class,” (with J.T. Bennett), Contemporary Sociology, (June 19, 2017)
- Christine H. Roch and Michael Rushton "Racial context and voting over taxes: Evidence from a referendum in Alabama," Public Finance Review 36(5) (September 2008): 614-634
- Michael Rushton "A Note on the Use and Misuse of the Racial Diversity Index," Policy Studies Journal 36(3) (August 2008): 445-459.
- Michael Rushton "Who pays? Who benefits? Who decides?" Journal of Cultural Economics 32(4) (December 2008): 293-300.