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Cultural Venue Governance Dataset |
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doi:10.7910/DVN/RT3C72 |
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Harvard Dataverse |
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Date of Distribution: |
2026-06-05 |
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Lockhart, Chewi, 2026, "Cultural Venue Governance Dataset", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/RT3C72, Harvard Dataverse, V1 |
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Title: |
Cultural Venue Governance Dataset |
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Identification Number: |
doi:10.7910/DVN/RT3C72 |
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Authoring Entity: |
Lockhart, Chewi (Appalachian State University) |
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Producer: |
Chewi Lockhart |
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Harvard Dataverse |
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Lockhart, Chewi |
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Depositor: |
Lockhart, Chewi |
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Date of Deposit: |
2026-05-21 |
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Holdings Information: |
https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/RT3C72 |
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Study Scope |
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Arts and Humanities, Business and Management, Social Sciences |
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The Municipal Cultural Venue Governance Dataset is a comparative municipal governance dataset examining how U.S. municipalities formally and informally classify, regulate, recognize, and support cultural independent venues through public-facing governance systems. The dataset was constructed through a structured seven-bucket discovery framework analyzing municipal arts and culture systems, economic development programs, historic preservation frameworks, land use and zoning systems, tourism infrastructure, downtown development initiatives, and emergency recovery programs.<br /><br /> The dataset includes 3,067 coded governance-relevant entries derived from 9,480 publicly accessible municipal documents collected across 100 U.S. municipalities. Variables include venue recognition, proxy classification systems, cultural criteria, ownership criteria, nonprofit eligibility structures, tourism classifications, regulatory treatment, and comparative governance indicators such as the Gap Score framework.<br /><br /> The project was developed as an exploratory empirical public administration and municipal governance dataset intended to support comparative research on cultural infrastructure governance, municipal classification systems, institutional fragmentation, and venue-related administrative practices.<br /><br /> This repository includes:<br /><br /> - the primary dataset workbook,<br /> - an embedded codebook/data dictionary,<br /> - and methodological companion documentation describing dataset construction, coding architecture, discovery methodology, and comparative governance framework development.<br /><br /> The dataset is derived exclusively from publicly accessible materials and is intended for scholarly, educational, and comparative governance research purposes. |
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<a href="http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0">CC0 1.0</a> |
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Cultural Venue Governance Dataset Companion.pdf |
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Methodological companion paper documenting the construction, coding architecture, comparative discovery framework, and governance signal identification methodology underlying the Municipal Cultural Venue Governance Dataset. The document explains the seven-bucket municipal discovery model, coding procedures, relevancy screening logic, comparative governance framework, dataset limitations, and methodological considerations associated with exploratory municipal governance analysis. |
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Cultural Venue Governance Dataset.xlsx |
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Primary comparative municipal governance dataset containing 3,067 coded governance-relevant entries derived from 9,480 publicly accessible municipal documents collected across 100 U.S. municipalities. The workbook includes municipality-level overview data, coded governance records, comparative classification variables, Gap Score indicators, proxy governance classifications, and an embedded codebook/data dictionary documenting variable definitions and coding logic. |
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application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet |
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README - Cultural Venue Governance Dataset.pdf |
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Repository overview and usage guide for the Municipal Cultural Venue Governance Dataset. The document summarizes dataset purpose, methodological scope, workbook structure, coding framework, Gap Score interpretation, limitations, and recommended citation practices. Intended to assist researchers, reviewers, and repository users in understanding and utilizing the dataset appropriately. |
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