This book shows the need of communication in the cultural policy field. The author stresses that the diversity of understandings of the word, concepts and realities of "culture", means that this is not a question of simply bringing together existing lists and aggregates of data. The core issue is to discuss and try to construct a framework for "knowledge management" for the cultural sector: to make the connections between rich fields of existing knowledge and research in cultural studies, anthropology, political theory, economics, sociology and the operational field of cultural policy.