Sport, policy and politics

Sport, Policy and Politics is a genuinely comparative analysis of sport policy-making in five countries – Australia, Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom and North America. Some of the issues raised in this book include: the process of sport policy-making; the administrative framework for sport: the responsibilities of central or federal governments, state governments and local authorities; the division of responsibility between different levels of government; how policy-making has addressed the topical problems of drug abuse in athletes, and the provision of sport and physical education in schools.