Abstract Public arts funding in the United States is under pressure. As a means of reducing volatility, twenty-eight states instituted alternative funding mechanisms to support a state arts agency. This study assesses the relationship between mechanisms for publicly funding the arts at intermediate levels of government and the health of the nonprofit arts and culture sector. The demography of organizations, an approach to analysis within organizational ecology, is applied to panel data of annual state-level counts from 1994 to 2014. Results of the different mechanisms vary; there is evidence that different mechanisms are correlated with population dynamics. The layering of findings raises additional questions about regional conditions that give rise to alternative mechanisms.

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付钱给吹笛者：公共资助艺术的替代机制

摘要美国的公共艺术经费面临压力。作为减少波动的一种手段，二十八个州建立了替代资助机制来支持州艺术机构。这项研究评估了政府中级政府为艺术提供公共资助的机制与非营利性艺术和文化部门的健康之间的关系。组织的人口统计是一种组织生态系统内的分析方法，被应用于1994年至2014年年度州级计数的面板数据。有证据表明，不同的机制与种群动态相关。研究结果的分层提出了有关引起替代机制的区域条件的其他问题。