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CCI Policy in Sweden

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Cultural and Creative Industries Policymaking

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The chapter describes Swedish cultural and creative industries (CCI) policy in the period 2000–2022. It opens with a description of the particularities of governance in Sweden and thereafter goes through the phases of Swedish CCI policy that follow with the launch and termination of specific policy programmes over the last two decades. The chapter draws on a policy regime framework as well as a multiple streams framework when describing the development of Swedish CCI policy. The chronological presentation allows for future comparison with other national contexts. The chapter describes how Swedish CCI policy at the national and subnational levels, albeit having been launched as an integrated policy domain, has essentially taken the form of enterprise policy. CCI policy programmes in Sweden have typically followed three-year cycles, and the renewal of policies has not been self-evident. The chapter concludes that this is probably partly linked to the turnover of political decision-makers and agendas on the political agenda.

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Lindqvist, K. (2024). CCI Policy in Sweden. In: Cultural and Creative Industries Policymaking. New Directions in Cultural Policy Research. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48094-2_4

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