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      Sport Policy in Britain
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      Sport Policy in Britain

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      Sport Policy in Britain

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      Sport Policy in Britain book

      ByBarrie Houlihan, Iain Lindsey
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2012
      eBook Published 19 October 2012
      Pub. Location New York
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203094273
      Pages 256
      eBook ISBN 9780203094273
      Subjects Politics & International Relations, Sports and Leisure
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      Houlihan, B., & Lindsey, I. (2012). Sport Policy in Britain (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203094273

      ABSTRACT

      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.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|24 pages

      The Framework for Analysis

      chapter 2|24 pages

      John Major’s Conservative Governments

      chapter 3|27 pages

      From New Labour’s Modernisation to the Coalition’s Big Society

      chapter 4|29 pages

      The Impact of Devolution on Sport Policy

      chapter 5|23 pages

      Elite Success and/or Increased Participation

      chapter 6|28 pages

      The Forgotten Partner: Local Government

      chapter 7|25 pages

      Youth Sport

      chapter 8|23 pages

      Continuity and Change in British Sport Policy

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