Cultural Expenditure in the City of Prague and Its Districts

All three tiers of government in the Czech Republic are engaged in the funding and provision of culture. In order to shed some light on the division of their authorities and mutual interactions and coordination there is presented a first part of a case study of the Capital of Prague which evaluates the distribution of public cultural expenditure between the City of Prague and its 57 districts and among the districts themselves between 2011 and 2015. The role of the districts is quite limited as they realize only about one fifth of the cultural expenditure and their role is really supplemental in case of grants and transfers to own organizations. There are significant differences among the districts which cannot be explained neither by the size of the districts nor their location.