Culture and Policy-Making: Pluralism, Performativity, and Semiotic Capital

PART I. Framework.- Chapter 1. The meaning of culture and the call for policies of cultural development.- Chapter 2. Cultural theories and Policies.- PART 2. Field explorations.- Chapter 3. What to do. Cultural and symbolic components of place-based policy for migrants' inclusion.- Chapter 4. Innovation and institutions: Reframing policies and the culture of local administration.- Chapter 5. Economic policies as a driver of cultural development.- Chapter 6.The dialectic between demand and supply in welfare domain. How does policies can survive in context of high personality intensity.- Chapter 7. How, where and when culture matters. A meta-analysis of the case studies.- Chapter 8. Conclusions: culture and the need to re-politicize policy making.- PART 3. Discussion.-Chapter 9. Commentary.