The Politics of sport
By: edited by Lincoln Allison.
Contributors: Allison, Lincoln.; Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom.; Political Studies Association Conference (1985 : Manchester, England)
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Manchester, UK; Wolfeboro, NH, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
Subjects: Sports and state
Notes: Includes bibliographical refernces and index.
"Over half of the chapters in this book were first presented as papers at the Political Studies Association Annual Conference in Manchester in April 1985"--Acknowledgements.
Table of contents: title: Sport and politics / Lincoln Allison; title: Sport and international relations / Trevor Taylor; title: Sporting autonomy and the law / Ken Foster; title: Elite sport policy in East and West / Jim Riordan; title: Northern Ireland : sport in a divided society / John Sugden and Alan Bairner; title: The politicisation of South African sport / Adrian Guelke; title: The politics of Black African sport / Terence Monnington; title: Hunting : a sporting or political issue? / Richard Thomas; title: Traditional versus commercial values in sport : the case of tennis / Kate Brasher; title: Politics and the Olympic spirit / Trevor Taylor; title: The state and sport : programmed and non-programmed intervention in contemporary Britain / John Hargreaves.