CAROL BALASSA is Senior Fellow at The Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy at Vanderbilt, Washington, DC, USA. ISABELLE BRIANSO is at the Centre d'Histoire Culturelle des Sociétés Contemporaines (CHCSC) and Laboratoire de recherche en management (LAREQUOI), Université Versailles Saint-Quentin en Yvelines (UVSQ), France. SANDRA BRAMAN is at the Department of Communication, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA. PATRICIA DEWEY teaches in the Arts and Administration Program, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA. HARVEY B. FEIGENBAUM is Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA. DENNIS GALVAN is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA. LAUHONA GANGULY is a PhD candidate, American University, Washington, DC, USA, and part-time faculty at The New School, New York, USA. JEFFREY A. HART is at the Department of Political Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA JENNY JOHANNISSON is at the Centre for Cultural Policy Research, Swedish School of Library and Information Science, University College of Borås, Sweden. NOBUKO KAWASHIMA is Professor in the Faculty of Economics, Doshisha University, Japan. TIMOTHY W. LUKE is at the Department of Political Science, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA. KEVIN V. MULCAHY is Sheldon Beychok Distinguished Professor of Political Science and PublicAdministration, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA, and Executive Editor of the Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society. CAROLE ROSENSTEIN teaches in the Arts Management Program, State University of New York, Buffalo, USA; and is Affiliated Scholar, The Urban Institute; USA. CYNTHIA P. SCHNEIDER is Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy, Georgetown University, USA, and Non-Resident Senior Scholar at the Brookings Institution; Washington, DC, USA. BJARKI VALTYSSON is Assistant Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark.