Olli Jakonen

Senior Researcher, D.Soc.Sc.

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I am a Senior Researcher at Cupore, where I have been contributing to various evaluation and research projects since June 2014. My expertise encompasses several themes in cultural policy, including the structures and objectives of Finnish cultural policy, funding and governance models for culture, assessments of implementation and effectiveness, and the cultural policies of Finnish political parties. Currently, I am focusing particularly on the cultural policy of populist parties in Finland and Sweden. Additionally, my work addresses cultural policy within government programs, cultural well-being policies, and the impacts of the corona pandemic on cultural policy.

I also play an active role in the development of the research center. In line with my responsibilities as a senior researcher, I am tasked with securing external funding for our research initiatives. Moreover, I am an active participant in the international cultural policy debate, primarily through conferences, and have authored several peer-reviewed scientific articles.

Since the start of 2023, I have taken on the role of co-editor-in-chief of the Cultural Policy Research Yearbook.

I earned my Master’s Degree in Social Sciences, majoring in Political Science, from the University of Jyväskylä in 2013. I completed my PhD at the same university in December 2022, successfully defending my dissertation.

Research projects
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- 2020 (ongoing research) Structures and funding
  State funding for culture in Finland
- 2020 (ongoing research) Art and artists
  As an artist in Finland
  
  As an artist in Finland is a continuous research project on the situation and societal status of professional artists working in Finland. Cupore collaborates in the research with Arts Promotion Centre Finland, the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture and Statistics Finland. In addition, various stages of the researchers are collaborating with artists' associations, grant-making foundations and copyright organizations.
- 2023 — 2023 Art and artists
  Cultural wellbeing for the elderly and the operating conditions of artists
- 2017 — 2019 Evaluation and development
  The evaluation of the operational subsidies of the Arts Promotion Centre Finland
- 2016 Evaluation and development
  Assessment and evaluation of impacts in arts and culture
- 2016 — 2017 Equality and participation
  Study of state subsidies for promoting cultural activities of disability communities and the accessibility of culture
- 2016 — 2019 Evaluation and development
  Expanding the One Percent Rule
- 2016 — 2017 Evaluation and development
  Cultural and Creative Spillovers
- 2015 Structures and funding
  Additional value of EU Structural Funds and the European Agricultural Fund for Finnish cultural policy
- 2015 Evaluation and development
  Developing public libraries. Effectiveness of subsidized development projects in public libraries.
Cupore's publications
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- Cupore's publications 2024 Challenging the Nordic model?
- Cupore's publications 2023 “We have no politics involved in state subsidies!”
- Cupore's publications 2022 Finnish cultural policy as public funding: Regime view across policy domains
- Cupore's publications 2021 Possibly culture? State funding for culture in Finland in 2019.
- Cupore's publications 2020 Results-based steering as a tool for centralized art policy management and instrumentalization?
- Cupore's publications 2020 From grass-roots activities to national policies – the state of arts and health in Finland
- Cupore's publications 2020 City Development and Cultural Policy
- Cupore's publications 2020 Sticks and Carrots of Arts Policy
- Cupore's publications 2019 Evaluation of the Government Key Project: Access to art and culture will be facilitated
- Cupore's publications 2018 Culture and cross-sectoral cooperation
- Cupore's publications 2018 Culture and city development
- Cupore's publications 2017 Equality and Accessibility in Finnish Cultural Policy
- Cupore's publications 2017 KUULTO and Tampere Together
- Cupore's publications 2017 Effectiveness of State Subsidies for Promoting Cultural Activities of Disability Communities and the Accessibility of Culture – Final Report
- Cupore's publications 2015 Additional value of EU Structural Funds and the European Agricultural Fund for Finnish cultural policy
- Cupore's publications 2015 Developing public libraries. Effectiveness of subsidized development projects in public libraries.
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Jakonen, O., Renko, V. & Harding, T. (2024). Challenging the Nordic model? The cultural policies of populist parties in Finland and Sweden. International
Journal of Cultural Policy. https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2024.2313520

Jakonen, O. & Sokka, S. (2023). “We have no politics involved in state subsidies!” Civil servants as political actors
within the system of cultural administration. Nordisk Kulturpolitisk Tidskrift, 26(2), 105–125. https://doi.org/10.18261/nkt.26.2.2

Jakonen, O. & Pyykkönen, M. (2023). The Politics of Economization of Cultural Policy. The institutional changes in the creative economy discourse and entrepreneurial artists in Finnish cultural policy. Nordisk Kulturpolitisk Tidskrift, 26(2), 126–145. https://doi.org/10.18261/nkt.26.2.3

Jakonen, O. (2022). Cultural policy in a strategic state. Steering and funding of art and culture as
administrative politics. JYU Dissertations 565. Jyväskylä: University of Jyväskylä. http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-951-39-9211-8

Jakonen, O. & Sokka, S. (2022). Finnish cultural policy as public funding: regime view across policy domains. Nordisk Kulturpolitisk Tidskrift, 25(3). https://doi.org/10.18261/nkt.25.3.9

Luonila, M., Renko, V., Jakonen, O., Karttunen, S., Kanerva, A. (2022). “The effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the field of Finnish Cultural Industries: revealing and challenging policy structures”. Teoksessa Salvador, E., Navarrette, T., & Srakar, A. (toim.) Cultural Industries and the COVID-19 Pandemic: A European Focus. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003128274

Jakonen, O., & Sokka, S. (2021). ”Meillä ei ole politiikkaa valtionavustuksissa!”: Virkakunnan valta kulttuurihallinnon valtionavustusjärjestelmässä [“We have no politics involved in government subsidies!”
Civil servants as political actors within the cultural administration]. Politiikka, 63(3). https://doi.org/10.37452/politiikka.101896

Jakonen, O., Luonila, M., Renko, V., & Kanerva, A. (2020). Katsaus koronan vaikutuksista taiteen ja kulttuurin alojen toimintaedellytyksiin ja kulttuuripolitiikkaan Suomessa [An overview of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the fields of art and culture and cultural policy in Finland], Kulttuuripolitiikan Tutkimuksen Vuosikirja, 5(1), 50-59. https://doi.org/10.17409/kpt.100430

Jakonen, O. (2020). Results-based steering as a tool for centralized art policy management and instrumentalization? Analysis of the Finnish Arts Council’s reformation, Nordisk Kulturpolitisk Tidsskrift, https://doi.org/10.18261/issn.2000-8325/2020-02-04

Laitinen, L., Jakonen, O., Lahtinen, E., & Lilja-Viherlampi, L-M. (2020). From grass-roots activities to national policies – the state of arts and health in Finland, Arts & Health 14(1), https://doi.org/10.1080/17533015.2020.1827275

Jakonen, O., & Renko, V. (2019). Kulttuuripolitiikan visiot ja jatkuvuus: Katsaus Suomen puolueiden kevään 2019 eduskuntavaaliohjelmiin ja tuoreimpiin kulttuuripoliittisiin erityisohjelmiin [Visions and continuity of cultural policy — A look into the 2019 parliamentary election programmes of Finland’s political parties and their cultural political special programmes], Kulttuuripolitiikan Tutkimuksen Vuosikirja, 4(1), 36-51. https://doi.org/10.17409/kpt.83622

Jakonen, O. (2017). Kulttuuripolitiikka ja nationalismi kilpailuvaltio-Suomessa: innovatiivinen luova talous [Nationalism(s) of cultural policy and national projects in culture: Creative economy and competitiveness], Kulttuuripolitiikan Tutkimuksen Vuosikirja, https://doi.org/10.17409/kpt.60100

Jakonen, O. (2015). Kansakunnasta kansalliseen kilpailukyky-yhteisöön. Suomen kulttuuripolitiikka suhteessa globaaleihin ideologioihin ja kulttuuripolitiikan virtauksiin 1800-luvulta nykypäivään. Teoksessa Koitela, Jussi (toim.), Suomen taidepoliittinen käsikirja. Helsinki: Baltic Circle/Checkpoint Helsinki.

Jakonen, O. (2015). Kulttuurin kehittäminen maaseudulla. Kulttuurihankkeet Manner-Suomen maaseudun kehittämisohjelmassa kaudella 2007-2013. Opetus- ja kulttuuriministeriön julkaisuja 2015:12.

Kangas, A., Jakonen O., & Havimäki, S-M. (2014). Osallistumista ja aktivointia; KUULTO-toimintakokeilun matkassa. Opetus- ja kulttuuriministeriön julkaisuja 2014:11.

Researcher as a writer

24.8.2023 / Blog A Review of the Government Programme's Cultural Policy in Finland

Olli Jakonen

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