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The distribution of public funding to the various cultural organisations is governed mainly by Vorarlberg's cultural law and the various guidelines. The cultural policy of the State is based as far as possible on an inductive promotion approach in which the cultural activity is determined less by systems and paragraphs than by the principle of self-organisation, subsidiary partnerships and individual best-practice models.  

In principle, every artistic idea should have the chance of being realised. In collaboration with the voluntary art commissions, the culture department is responsible for quality assurance in the whole area of subsidisation. The public administration is distinguished by a streamlined, unbureaucratic and people-oriented approach, flanked by regular "cultural meetings" between the makers of cultural policy and the artists themselves.

In conjunction with the main cultural organisations, the State cultural department is concerned to continuously improve the basic conditions for cultural policy and its implementation. The provision of production facilities without participating in production itself, the elaboration of the corresponding budget plans and the creation of commercially organised structures are some of its core tasks. Accordingly, the running of the large State cultural facilities (State Museum, State Theatre, Kunsthaus Bregenz) was handed over to a "cultural centre operating company" in the nineties. The use of public funds in all areas of culture is made transparent in annual "cultural reports".