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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459490103321

Titolo

Participation in sport : international policy perspectives / / edited by Matthew Nicholson, Russell Hoye, and Barrie Houlihan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, [England] ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-135-26573-9

1-135-26574-7

1-282-89874-4

9786612898747

0-203-87049-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HoulihanBarrie

HoyeRussell <1966->

NicholsonMatthew

Disciplina

306.483

Soggetti

Sports and state

Sports

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 England; 3 The Netherlands; 4 Germany; 5 Norway; 6 Hungary; 7 Bulgaria; 8 Finland; 9 South Africa; 10 India; 11 China; 12 Singapore; 13 Japan; 14 Australia; 15 New Zealand; 16 United States of America; 17 Canada; 18 Conclusion; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Although there is growing interest from governments in participation levels in sport, the extent to which governments actively promote 'sport for all' and their motives for doing so vary greatly. This is the first book to examine the sport participation policies of national governments across the world and to offer a comparative analysis of the motives for, and successes and failures of those policies.Organized around a series of sixteen national case studies, including the UK, the US, Australia, China and India, the book enables students and practitioners to



compare and contrast the