Bennett and others have pointed to the fact that Cultural Studies must be effective as a part of governance . Another point that made is that we have to see ourselves as a wing of government, not simply as academicians. This issue of a culture-policy debate is centred on whether we should study culture and cultural practices as signifying practices and, if so, how much policy should be a part of it. This is also known as the criticism-policy polarity. Essentially criticism or policy is the crux of the debate.