The Politics of Leisure Policy provides a comprehensive account of the major issues in relation to sports, arts and recreational policy in the 1990s. It traces the relationship between local and central government and private provision and the political ideologies which have shaped it - notably a whole decade of New Right thinking which has left its legacy in a policy agenda dominated by economic rather than social aesthetic and conservationist criteria
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'[A] welcome second edition...make[s] a significant contribution to the literature in the field of leisure and culture.' - Alison Caffyn, University of Birmingham Local Government Studies '[A]mazingly detailed and comprehensive...Each argument is vividly articulated and drawn out to its logical conclusion...It is hard to imagine a more carefully crafted work on leisure policy in Britain.' - Sarah Fields, Entertainment Law
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IAN HENRY is Professor of Leisure Policy and Management and Director of the Institute of Sport and Leisure Policy, Loughborough University.
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At the beginning of the 1960s, following the post-war period of major growth, Daniel Bell (1960) felt able to declare The End of Ideology, by which he referred to the political consensus organised around social democratic politics and institutions. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
government leisure policy, implications for leisure policy, public sector leisure services, quango status, capita expend, new economic realism, leisure investment, leisure policies, leisure organisations, leisure provision, traditional pluralism, leisure forms, leisure professionals, leisure management, local socialism, leisure field, leisure expenditure, leisure sphere, sports policy, leisure spending, peripheral workforce, strategic relations, cultural provision Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Labour, Arts Council, New Urban Left, European Union, Labour Party, Leisure Polic, Countryside Commission, Greater London Council, Conservative Party, City Council, John Major, Prime Minister, White Papers, Audit Commission, Citizen's Charter, Department of National Heritage, Tony Blair, Margaret Thatcher, National Lottery, National Trust, Education Act, European Community, Raising the Game, Traditional Labour, Department of Environment New!
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At the beginning of the 1960s, following the post-war period of major growth, Daniel Bell (1960) felt able to declare The End of Ideology, by which he referred to the political consensus organised around social democratic politics and institutions. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
government leisure policy, implications for leisure policy, public sector leisure services, quango status, capita expend, new economic realism, leisure investment, leisure policies, leisure organisations, leisure provision, traditional pluralism, leisure forms, leisure professionals, leisure management, local socialism, leisure field, leisure expenditure, leisure sphere, sports policy, leisure spending, peripheral workforce, strategic relations, cultural provision Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Labour, Arts Council, New Urban Left, European Union, Labour Party, Leisure Polic, Countryside Commission, Greater London Council, Conservative Party, City Council, John Major, Prime Minister, White Papers, Audit Commission, Citizen's Charter, Department of National Heritage, Tony Blair, Margaret Thatcher, National Lottery, National Trust, Education Act, European Community, Raising the Game, Traditional Labour, Department of Environment New!
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- The Sports Council: Initiatives to Improve Financial Management and Control and Value for Money: [Hc]: [1993-94]: House of Commons Papers: [1993-94] by Great Britain on 11 pages
- The Labour Party: A Centenary History by Brian Brivati on 5 pages
- The End of Ideology: On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties, with "The Resumption of History in the New Century" by Daniel Bell in Front Matter, page 94, and Back Matter
- The Major Effect by Dennis Kavanagh in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Leisure Policies in Europe by Peter Bramham in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- Media and Cultural Regulation (Culture, Media and Identities series) by Kenneth A Thompson on page 19, page 50, and Back Matter
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- NTU Sports Textbook Pack: Sport, Culture and Society: An Introduction by Grant Jarvie on page 40, page 83, and Back Matter
- Sport Tourism (Sport in the Global Society) by Heather J. Gibson on page 225, and page 243
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