caa a22 4500 475840968 CHVBK 20180406123901.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1005066823837 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1005066823837 La Donna e Mobile - or is She? Voter Preferences and Public Support for the Performing Arts [Elektronische Daten] [Günther Schulze, Heinrich Ursprung] This paper investigates a referendum held in 1994 on the public support of the Zürich Opera House. The estimates demonstrate that well over 85% of the variance in the approval rates across ballot districts can be explained with a few variables characterizing the socio-economic composition of the electorate. Since these variables have been shown to influence the level of public support for the arts in representative democracies as well, our result lends support to the view that in democracies public support for the arts is coupled to the stable preferences of the electorate. This insight may, to some extent, mitigate and qualify existing fears that cultural policy is completely at the mercy of changing government ideologies and interest group influences. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000 Schulze Günther Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Konstanz, Fach D138, 78457, Konstanz, Germany aut Ursprung Heinrich Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Konstanz, Fach D138, 78457, Konstanz, Germany aut Public Choice Kluwer Academic Publishers 102/1-2(2000-01-01), 129-147 0048-5829 102:1-2<129 2000 102 11127 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005066823837 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005066823837 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Schulze Günther Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Konstanz, Fach D138, 78457, Konstanz, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ursprung Heinrich Department of Economics and Statistics, University of Konstanz, Fach D138, 78457, Konstanz, Germany aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Public Choice Kluwer Academic Publishers 102/1-2(2000-01-01), 129-147 0048-5829 102:1-2<129 2000 102 11127 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer