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AMERICAN CULTURAL PATRONAGE: THE LIMITS OF PRIVATIZATION
The American government is often viewed as a reluctant patron of culture with a parsimonious and puritanical bent. In contrast, the conventional wisdom presents European national governments as long time, generous and unstinting benefactors of culture. Traditionally, analysts of public culture have contrasted the supposedly deplorable condition of public support for cultural activities in the United States with an idealized conception of the European cultural condition.
