Research Perspectives on Policymaking

This chapter recognises the lack of published research on cultural and creative industries (CCI) policymaking that allows for comparative studies and introduces to policy research and a framework for understanding the development of CCI policymaking in Europe. The chapter briefly describes the scope of policy research and then discusses some matters in the multidisciplinary field of policy research that are central to CCI policymaking, such as cross-sectoral collaboration and coordination and policy integration. The chapter then presents the theoretical framework of the empirical analyses of later chapters, the policy regime perspective. This framework is effectively a type of comparative-historical analysis framework and allows analysis of central ideas, interests and institutional arrangements in a policy as well as analysis of policy legitimacy, coherence and durability over time.