{"id":10022,"date":"2005-12-14T14:02:31","date_gmt":"2005-12-14T12:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/?p=10022"},"modified":"2016-03-23T14:04:17","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T12:04:17","slug":"estonian-culture-policy-at-a-crossroads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/previous-issues\/no-12\/estonian-culture-policy-at-a-crossroads\/","title":{"rendered":"Estonian culture policy at a crossroads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">The Estonian government cannot be accused of lacking a cultural policy. The problem lies above all in the fact that the elitist-conservationist culture policy followed to date does not conform to the needs of a dynamically developing community, which is why the aim of cultural policy is changing.<\/p>\n<p>The dominance of the norms of high culture in assessing culture is weakening. They are being replaced by a democratic view of culture based on, for the purposes of shaping and assessing culture policy, the criteria of availability, diversity and satisfaction of people&#8217;s needs for culture. Along with this, the defining role of the state (read: politicians and officials) in directing cultural activeness is receding. It is being replaced to an increasing extent by civil society and the market.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/eelmised-numbrid\/nr-12\/eesti-kultuuripoliitika-teelahkmel\/\" target=\"_blank\">Full article in Estonian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Estonian government cannot be accused of lacking a cultural policy. The problem lies above all in the fact that the elitist-conservationist culture policy followed to date does not conform to the needs of a dynamically developing community, which is why the aim of cultural policy is changing. The dominance of the norms of high [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"class_list":["post-10022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-no-12","topic-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rito.riigikogu.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}