摘要：The main thesis that enable cultural economics to be an independent discipline is the argument that state should support the arts. Cost disease argument which putted forth by examining the performing arts with economic tools,contains the foresight that arts will be fading away if state does not support it. The relation of state and the arts was in the observation area of other disciplines before the analysis in question. By adding the economy term beside these variables,discussions have pulled to scientific ground and extensive studies came with. Merit goods argument is the most dominant justification for politics in terms of state support for the arts when economists underline the market failures as a justification. Preferences about forms and amounts of state support constitute important part of cultural policy and achieved success of the policies in question,only could be assessing with the help of demand analysis. This paper aims both provide a theoretic approach to the cultural policy of Turkey and discuss the achieved success of it. This paper therefore emphasizes the importance of demand profile in cultural policy and underlines the importance of support forms as much as state support for the arts by departing from microeconomic demand analysis. The market failures also added to the study as theoretical base for cultural policy and discussed the reasons of state support for the arts based on positive externalities.
其他摘要：Kültür-sanat ekonomisinin bağımsız bir disiplin olarak ortaya çıkmasını sağlayan temel tez,devletin sanatı desteklemesi gerektiği önermesidir. Gösteri sanatı formlarının iktisadi araçlarla incelenmesi sonucunda ortaya konan maliyet hastalığı argümanı,devl
