French and American Cultural participation : Elements of comparison, 1981-2008

A comparison of the results of these two surveys, which have been published in roughly similar periods since the early 1980s, gives a comparative study of the level of dissemination of cultural practices and their respective public profiles which spans almost three decades. In the early 1980s, the A...

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Main Author: Olivier Donnat (auth)
Other Authors: Angèle Christin (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Département des études, de la prospective et des statistiques
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