광역자치단체의 예술 예산에 영향을 미치는 요인

초록

This study aims to understand the current state of art budgets in metropolitan local governments and empirically analyze the factors that influence them. To do this, we built nine years of panel data for 17 metropolitan local governments and analyzed it using the Panel Corrected Standard Errors (PCSE) model. The results are as follows. First, the average art budget per resident in metropolitan local governments was about 2,115 won, and the budget steadily increased but started to decline after reaching its peak in 2022. Second, art budgets tended to increase when the proportion of elderly population was lower, the number of businesses was higher, and there were more art facilities. On the other hand, lower voter turnout, lower financial independence, and lower local tax per capita were associated with higher art budgets. Overall, socioeconomic factors had a positive effect on expanding art budgets, while political-administrative and financial-cultural factors had a relatively negative effect. These results suggest that as the economic conditions of a region improve, the need for public sector art funding might decrease. This study is significant because it presents a method for estimating art budgets using local financial data and empirically identifies the factors determining metropolitan local governments’ art budgets, offering both academic and policy insights for cultural and arts finance policies.

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