Introduction: Enriching the governance field
1. Introductory reflections on arts governance: Progress or prospect?
2. Seeking legitimacy for arts governance: Definitional challenges and resolutions Part I: Individual directors, power and diversity
3. Arts governance in cultural organizations: Experiences of board members of African descent in the US
4. Balancing identities: Board members’ dual roles in small, volunteer-operated artistic organisations
5. Abusive leadership in the arts and the crisis of accountability
6. Performing arts governance and the African personality ideology: A focus on Ghana Part II: Governance, the board-organisation nexus and its accountabilities
7. Practices at the nexus of logics when boards and co-leaders undertake governance work
8. Accountability and governance in cultural organizations
9. Nonprofit cultural governance: France versus USA Part III: Complexity of governance in organisations
10. Who really governs and how: Power, influence, and the role of dominant coalitions in the governance of nonprofit arts organisations
11. Co-governance of an arts organization and its parallel foundation: A role space shared by two boards
12. Cultural governance from an international comparative perspective
13. Hoisted by their own petard? Dynamics of inclusivity and exclusivity among large nonprofit arts organizations and governance reconsidered
14. Governance complexity in industrial heritage museums Part IV: Governance of collaboration in communities and fields
15. From government to governance: Engaging funding stakeholders through collaborative governance
16. Korean disability arts policy and collaborative governance
17. Collaborative governance approach to sustainable development in local communities: Insights from the managers of US-based arts and culture nonprofits
18. Resilience in a time of crisis: A piece of the cultural governance puzzle Part V: Policy environments and cultural governance
19. The fragility of cultural governance: A re-evaluation of the cultural city project in Korea
20. Cultural governance in hybrid regimes: Strategies and models of and for survival: A view from Serbia
21. Government as guarantor of artistic freedom? Public governance of the arts in Sweden
22. Cultural governance as field governance: Interest groups and the transformational work on cultural policy
23. Cultural observation for cultural governance: Between contemplation and transformation
24. Governance of live performing arts: Building strong cultural institutions in developing countries
25. Anti-capitalist and decolonised cultural governance