COVID-19 and the arts and cultural sectors: investigating countries’ contextual factors and early policy measures

In order to address the research objectives, the measures that a handful of smaller and medium-sized countries in Europe installed in the first months after the outbreak of the COVID-19 crisis have been collected, described, and categorized to allow for a comparison. The paper concludes with a discussion of the differences and similarities of COVID-19 state policies for the arts and cultural sector, and of whether and how these measures have been determined by – similar or different – contextual factors. Read more information here. University of Lüneburg Erasmus University Rotterdam University of Economics Prague University of Ljubljana