18/09/2014
Big scientific events tend to be somewhat confusing. With almost 500 participants and more than 200 presentations in up to 14 parallel sessions (find the program here) the iccpr 2014 was the biggest international cultural policy research conference so far. As it was the 8th of the biannual conference, some routines were visible – the […]
23/06/2014
Almost 15 years ago, the major cultural institutions of the federal republic of Austria changed their legal entities to full legal capacity. The cultural economist Peter Tschmuck has analysed this process and its effects in „Die ausgegliederte Muse“ (the outsourced muse). The end of the road is near Since the crisis of the Burgtheater became […]
24/03/2014
Lately there has been much public attention on two cases of bad governance. On the one hand, the breakdown of a regional bank, Hypo Alpe-Adria, with the effect of at least 12 billion Euro damage for Austria’s state budget. On the other, the discovery of, let’s call it creative accounting at the Burgtheater Vienna, leading […]