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Abstract
This study is the first to examine the City of Vienna’s apportioning and redistricting of the funding of cultural projects over a 20-year period
(1998-2017). Its focus is not only an evaluative analysis of the LIKUS-categories, but also an intrinsic analysis of the art and cultural funding reports of the City of Vienna.
The study also considers the reports of the Austrian federal government, including all available official documents down to the level of individual organizations.
The analysis reveals a massive imbalance in Vienna’s funding allocation. Large grants of more than 100,000 euros make up more than 92% of the total
amount spent annually. As of 2017, the top six ranking organisations receive more subsidies from the City of Vienna than the remaining 1,675 put together. Since there are additional
federal subsidies, this ratio becomes even more disadvantageous for those ‘smaller’ cultural associations. However, these ‘smaller’ associations play a vital grass-roots role in Vienna.
Given these results, the study calls for a change in Vienna’s cultural policy, offering easily realisable suggestions for improving the effects of a highly
asymmetric funding policy.
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