First Sentence

"In the 1990 publication "Arts Policy Research for the 1990s and Beyond," Milton Cummings, Monnie Peters, Richard Swaim, Margaret Wyszomirski and myself wrote: Despite its short history, arts policy research has made substantive contributions to our understanding of many specific topics: rationales for public support of the arts, historical and cross-national trends in government arts policy, controversies in policymaking, interrelationships between public and private support for the arts, leadership styles in public arts agencies, the implications of tax regulations for arts organizations as well as private arts patrons, and many others. pressed to conclude, as the 1990s begin, that arts policy research is a healthy enterprise."