Public policies and multilevel governance to promote the creative economy from the cultural fi eld: inter-federative support for Curitiba’s policy

Mario Procopiuck,Schirlei Mari Freder

doi:10.1590/0103-6351/4716

Mario Procopiuck, Schirlei Mari Freder

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https://doi.org/10.1590/0103-6351/4716

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Abstract The design and implementation of public policies to promote the creative economy as a new sustainable development based have not shown the same results in different societies. This article aims to evaluate the strength and ability of a multilevel governance system formed by institutions and actors at federal, state, and local levels to design and implement public policy to promote the creative economy as an alternative for Brazilian development. The analysis is guided by the concept of multilevel governance, considering horizontal relations and vertical relations to address the public problems of interest to all. The process mapping model for the formulation of public policy called Multiple Streams was necessary for its potential to grasp the logic of the political process. The results indicate the difficulties in forming a multilevel governance system with sufficient capacity to design and implement public policies from the cultural field to promote the creative economy at the federal level, in the state of Paraná and the city of Curitiba.

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The search for ways to promote the creative economy as a new basis for more sustainable development has occupied the agenda of many governments, and national and international organizations
Faced with promising results like these, the creative economy might provide a new perspective to revitalize traditional industries and open spaces to new sectors, while mainly being based on the intensive use of knowledge and creativity whose generation and application can be stimulated by planned urban contexts for the development of creative classes and activities (SCOTT 2006; LEVICKAITÈ 2011)
This article aims to evaluate the solidity and capacity of a multilevel governance system formed by institutions and actors at federal, state, and local levels to design and implement public policy to promote the creative economy as a national, state, and municipal development alternative for Brazil

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The search for ways to promote the creative economy as a new basis for more sustainable development has occupied the agenda of many governments, and national and international organizations. Contrary to these conservative tendencies, some governments, academics, and civil society actors are trying to innovate how to design strategies based on the use of the creative economy as a new perspective to more sustainable development The discussions about these new development opportunities usually are around the highlighted themes of creative industries (LANGE and MIEG 2006; LANGE 2010; BERTACCHINI and BORRIONE 2011; FACHINELLI et al 2013; CARDOSO et al 2017), creative classes (HOYMAN and FARIC 2009; WILSON 2010; FLORIDA et al 2011; BÁEZ et al 2014; ZDEPSKI et al 2018), and creative cities (HALL 2000; HOSPERS and PEN 2008; EVANS 2009; PRATT and HUTTON 2013; FREDER et al 2018). Such themes have been addressed in the multidisciplinary and transverse mode, for example, in the areas of innovation, technology, economics, culture, entrepreneurship, sustainability, and urbanism (GARNHAM 2005; TAYLOR 2013; KACERAUSKAS 2015)

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