Vaninstitucionalni akteri kulturne politike u Srbiji, Crnoj Gori i Makedoniji
Non-institutional Agents Of Cultural Policy In Serbia, Montenegro And Macedonia

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents the results of a study which investigated cultural policy partakers active outside the system of public/ state cultural institutions in Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia (non-governmental organizations dealing with culture, inde- pendent cultural associations, artists associations, informal art groups, non-profit cultural clubs, etc). Total of 112 independent cultural scene partakers participated in the study – 71 in Serbia, 22 in Macedonia and 19 in Montenegro. The analysis relied on a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods: a sur- vey intended primarily to gauge five groups of capacities of the organizations surveyed (human, technical, financial, manage- rial and social) and, on the other hand, semi-structured inter- views which provided data on and evaluations of cooperation at various levels (with other stakeholders of the independent scene, with donors, decision makers, the business community, media); insight into the most important problems facing non-in- stitutional partakers of cultural policy and ways of overcoming these problems; as well as independent cultural scene partakers’ opinions regarding future directions of the scene’s development in their country and in the region. Out of the multitude of in- formation gathered in the course of the study, we will restrict ourselves here to a brief presentation of the results concerning: a) the characteristics of the partakers of the independent cul- tural scene; b) the conditions under which the scene operates; c) cooperation between independent cultural scene partakers and several groups of their important stakeholders; and d) the measurement of the capacities of organizations belonging to the independent cultural scene in Serbia, Montenegro and Mace- donia. Finally, we will also draw attention to some of the areas in which the creators of cultural policy in the above-mentioned countries might choose to intervene should they wish to further the activities of the independent cultural scene in their com- munity.

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