Böcker av Neil (Edge Hill University King

This is the first book to map, analyse and explain the function of local government in the formulation and implementation of sport policy. Drawing on new empirical research and presenting a series of case-studies of unprecedented depth of sport policy in a number of major international cities, this book is essential reading for all advanced students, researchers and policy-makers with an interest in sport development, sport policy or local government.

Studies the politics of sport policy at the local authority level of governance. Taking the city of Liverpool as case study, this book investigates the contours of sport policy from the inception of the service area in the 1970s through the economic and political turbulence of the 1980s to the year of European Capital of Culture 2008.