This important new text address a range of issues central to understanding the character of sports development, from organisation and strategy within the public

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

When originally published in 1991 this was the first book to tackle the UK policy process of sport and to provide a political science analysis of some of the ke

This is a cutting-edge text which responds to the increasing importance of sport policy and its relation to public investment.

This book focuses on the major social and political forces that have shaped the ways in which sport has been understood, organized, and contested in an effort t