Theoretical foundations of practices of cultural policy: the experience of Russia

The article describes some results of study of the diversity of existing theoretical and methodological bases of cultural policy as a special kind of management activities that affect social transformation. In historical perspective, salient features of practices of cultural policy. The results of the study suggests that mainstreaming themes of the revision of the theoretical foundations of cultural policy today is associated, in particular, with the fact that she mates with the challenges of the new global migration becomes a problem of internal policy of modern societies and at the state level is interpreted as “difficult to resolve”. Overall, the experience of implementing diverse practices of cultural policy shows that to rely only General, universal principles of mutual tolerance, non-constructive, they must be complemented by regional-specific modern technologies and methods of participation in management. That is, cultural policy must be systemic and long term, based on certain time-tested theoretical propositions, and not just temporary directives, charters, petitions, appeals, non-binding, and at the same time it should be open to innovations.