Abstract The case of Novi Sad European Capital of Culture 2021 (NS2021), in which various rationales of cultural policy (local, national, supranational) thread a complex web of political interactions, brings interesting challenges to the theoretical landscape of cultural policy research. We start with the analysis of the Bidbook NS2021 as a cultural policy text, discussing its inconsistencies and ambiguities. Then we study the context and the policy process through participant observation and interviews with key authors. We find that the policy-making process is best explained as contingent - meaning that it is dependent on the historical discourses, demands of the specific policy genre, external requirements and internal pressures, and individual agencies and accidents. In the concluding section, we discuss theoretical and methodological implications that policy contingency poses to cultural policy studies.

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从矛盾到偶然性-理解诺维萨德2021年欧洲文化之都的政策复杂性

摘要《 2021年欧洲文化之都诺维萨德》（NS2021）一案中，各种文化政策理论（地方，国家，超国家）贯穿复杂的政治互动网络，这给文化政策研究的理论格局带来了有趣的挑战。我们将从对Bidbook NS2021作为文化政策文本的分析开始，讨论其不一致之处和含糊之处。然后，我们通过参与者的观察和与主要作者的访谈来研究背景和政策过程。我们发现，最好将决策过程解释为偶然的-这意味着它取决于历史论述，特定政策体裁的要求，外部要求和内部压力以及单个机构和事故。在结论部分，