Cultural policies and young people

Abstract

In recent works about international organisms with a vocation for the subjects discussed here, reference has constantly been made to a growing and much-needed proximity between research and intervention. The process by which these two areas - research and intervention - have been growing closer has not been easy. Politicians are often unenthusiastic because the research work does not cover the areas in which they are directly interested and researchers tend to become discouraged because the politicians' decisions ignore their conclusions. But, when it is the state intervening, these difficulties between politicians and researchers are only one aspect of a much larger latent debate. It is the classic debate on relations between the state and society or, in other words, the debate between interventionism and liberalization. The author opens her reflection on cultural youth policies with a brief view of the current tendencies in this debate.