藝文活動有價、政府補助有理

Cultural Activity Has Its “Value” and Government Subsidy Is Justified

本文探討政府補助藝文活動的決定因素，分析政府透過補助藝文活動可以促進其豐富且多元化的發展，更可以爭取選民的支持，有助於施政績效提升民選首長之效用，並採用臺北市政府補助729 個藝文團體在2002–2009 年的不平衡追蹤資料分析。實證結果顯示政府補助金額與計畫規模、申請金額、申請比率低於計畫經費的10%、年度補助次數及國際性活動呈正向關係，但與申請比率呈負向關係；其次，政府補助比率與申請比率低於計畫經費的10%、年度補助次數、國際活動性質呈正向關係，但與計畫規模、申請金額、申請比率及新聞能見度呈負向關係。實證結果顯示藝文活動的規模與政府補助程度呈正向關係，但政府在經費分配效率與普及性的考量下，對藝文團體的補助程度隨計畫規模增加而下降。

This paper explored determining factors of government financial supporton cultural activities of non-profit organizations using data from the Taipei CityDepartment of Cultural Affairs. Government grants are a major financialresource for nonprofit art-performing organizations. Support to cultural activitiescan enrich cultural diversification and is also an area where governmentperformance is assessed. Also, to garner broad support in future elections,elected officials have strong motive to widen the varieties and scale of suchsupport. In this study, unbalanced panel data consisting of 729 art or performanceorganizations between 2002 and 2009 were used to investigate the factorsdetermining government subsidies. Empirical correlation analysis indicatesthat there is a positive correlation between the size of government grantsand several factors including the scale of projects, the application amount ofgrant proposals, the ratio of application amount to project size being less than10%, the granting frequency per year, and whether it is an international project;however, a negative correlation was observed with the ratio of applicationamount to project size. In addition, the proportion of granted amount to projectsize positively correlates with the following factors: ratio of application amountto project size being less than 10%, the granting frequency per year, and if it isan international project; and is in a negative correlation with the project scale,application amount, ratio of application granting amount to project size, andpress visibility. Empirical results indicate that larger projects received a greaterfinancial support from the Government. However, when the efficiency ofresource allocation and popularity were taken into consideration, the amount ofgovernmental subsidy decreased as the project size increased.