Over the past century it would seem that cultural policy and the arts have become significant to the Bulgarian state. This article investigates the various stages of periodization of the cultural policy and the difficulties that the development of the cultural policy in Bulgaria is now facing. It argues that it is useful to think about cultural policy across many different fields - legislation, institutional core structure of culture and various areas of cultural production and reception.
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