RIDLEY, Frederick F <br/><br/>
Les arts en Grande-Bretagne :  un financement sans mainmise de l'État 

 - Paris :  IIAP,  avril/juin 1982 
<br/><br/> A former chairman of the Arts Council once said that one of the great liberties enjoyed by a British subject is his right to abstain from the arts. This best outlines the tradition on which cultural policy is based in the UK, governed by the principle that the majority has no right to decide on behalf of individual taste which may differ from whatever doctrine of national interest. This pragmatic approach is set against French dogmatics pinpointing the originality of the British concept of cultural policy and its inherent problems