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Globalization is a key part of everyday lives, and sport itself is an increasingly global phenomenon. This book successfully brings the two together, locating the study of sports policy within a broader consideration of global processes, practices and consequences.
Drawing upon a range of empirical case studies, Catherine Palmer successfully illuminates issues that have not previously been discussed. Exploring the relationship between the local and the global, globalization and governance, new technologies, human rights, environment and corporate responsibility, the author sets out the ground for a new and refreshed understanding of policy making in sport and how this affects society moreover.
Original and timely, this book is a must for sports students on all levels. It will also be of immense use for students on courses that deal with public and social policy making.
Globalization and the Governance of Sports Policy
Globalization and the Governance of Sports Policy
This Chapter
- provides an overview of governance and global sports policy;
- assesses the key sporting organizations which operate at supra, national and sub-national levels;
- discusses the role of cultural brokers and policy entrepreneurs in the making and governance of sports policy.
Introduction
The global diffusion of modern sport from the late nineteenth century onwards has seen the emergence of an ever-increasing range of organizations and institutions with competing claims to authority over the production and consumption of sport. From the harmonization of rules and regulations, to the enforcement of policy, to the control of media and broadcasting rights, global governance is, as Murphy (2000) notes, an arena in which struggles over wealth, power and knowledge are taking ...
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