Sport and International Politics

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Houlihan, Barrie

Encyclopedias & Subject Guides

Harvester/Wheatsheaf

Sport Policy in China (Routledge Research in Sport Politics and Policy)

Zheng, Jinming

Chen, Shushu

Tan, Tien-Chin

Routledge

The Government and Politics of Sport

Over the past 10 years sport has been increasingly involved with politics. A few well-publicized issues have had great effect. Who now decides and administers the policy and what is the overall effect on sport? "The Government and Politics of Sport" identifies the parties involved: central government, local government, the Sports Council, The Central Council of Physical Recreation and the individual sports governing bodies. It examines their effect on sport policy and administration through an analysis of three important current sport issues - football hooliganism, drug abuse among athletes and sports opportunities and facilities for school-children. In the course of this examination another important factor is brought to light - the growing importance of international organizations. This is the first book to tackle the domestic policy process of sport and to provide a political science analysis of some of the key issues facing sports administrators today. The book is the result of a long-standing interest in sports policy and administration and an involvement in the teaching of sports. This book should be of interest to students of leisure studies, policy studies and politics.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Sport, Policy and Politics

Sport, Policy and Politics is a genuinely comparative analysis of sport policy-making in five countries - Australia, Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom and North America. Some of the issues raised in this book include: * the process of sport policy-making * the administrative framework for sport: the responsibilities of central or federal governments, state governments and local authorities * the division of responsibility between different levels of government * how policy-making has addressed the topical problems of drug abuse in athletes, and the provision of sport and physical education in schools.

Sociology

The Politics of Sports Development: Development of Sport or Development Through Sport?

This text traces the evolution of sports development in the UK in the context of broader shifts in sport and social policy. It explores the emergence of sports development from the early years of public policy for sport in the 1960s to the contemporary era. This analysis is set against a background of policy initiatives, from 'Sport For All', 'Action Sport' and CCT, to the National Lottery and the contemporary emphasis on sport as a factor in the social and cultural well-being of the nation. Incorporating original material from major case studies and the national governing bodies of hockey, rowing, rugby union and tennis, the book examines the reality of "doing sports development" within this changing social and political policy climate.

The Politics of Sports Development

Sports & Outdoors

White, Anita

Miscellaneous

This book traces the evolution of sports development in the UK in the context of broader shifts in sport and social policy, and explores the emergence of sports development from the 1960s to the contemporary era.

Coaching

Elite Sport Development addresses important sport policy questions and explores the emergence, development and current status of elite sport development policy with detailed examination of Australia, Canada and the UK. The sports compared are swimming, track and field athletics, and sailing. The book looks at the problems faced in establishing an elite sport development infrastructure covering facilities, coaching, sports science and competition. Likewise, full-time athletes are considered and the tensions that a pre-occupation with elite achievement generates within the sports is also examined. Includes: * why governments invest heavily in elite sport * the relationship between Government and NGB's * the impact of elite investment on 'sport for all' * the selection of individual sports for priority funding. This detailed text will be of interest to students, researchers and professionals working in sports development and policy.

Elite Sport Development: Policy Learning and Political Priorities

Green, Mick

Sport Policy in Britain (Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society)

Since 1990, Britain has seen a period of unprecedented public investment in, and political commitment to, sport. In this book, Iain Lindsey and Barrie Houlihan examine and analyze sport policy since the appointment of John Major as leader of the Conservative Party in 1990. John Major’s period as Prime Minister was a watershed in British sport policy marking the beginning of a prolonged period of public and lottery investment and relatively high political salience. The text also locates Labour sport policy not only in relation to the previous government of John Major, but also in relation to the Labor government’s broader concerns and ambitions related to modernization of British institutions, its ambition to tackle the ‘wicked issues’ epitomized by its focus on achieving greater social inclusion, and its interest in facilitating greater stakeholder involvement in the policy process. Lindsey and Houlihan provide the first analysis that examines sport policy as a field of government and that discusses how the various sectors (e.g. youth/school sport, mass sport, etc.) have been affected by government policy and the competition for public resources.

Lindsey, Iain

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