How to effectively win a CV?

Both Military industrial complex and iron fist give sizeable bonuses to science and both are tier one polices so you can get them quickly.
 
And it is true that CV is very much like SV, except it's more complex and you have to commit to it throughout the entire game, while SV is something you can decide on later on.

Commit is a strong word. I would say the big two things you need are:
1) You built Writers and Artists Guilds on time (Musicians has some timing weirdness with it if you are into heavy micro, generally not too bad for it to be delayed aside from losing the raw culture)
2) You can Faith buy Great Musicians, either through GoG or Complete Artistry.

If you meet both those requirements congratulations CV is well within your reach as you choose your Ideology.
 
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