Global Sports Policy
- Catherine Palmer - Deakin University, Australia
Globalization is a key part of everyday lives, and sport itself is an increasingly global phenomenon. This book successfully brings the two together, locating the study of sports policy within a broader consideration of global processes, practices and consequences.
Drawing upon a range of empirical case studies, Catherine Palmer successfully illuminates issues that have not previously been discussed. Exploring the relationship between the local and the global, globalization and governance, new technologies, human rights, environment and corporate responsibility, the author sets out the ground for a new and refreshed understanding of policy making in sport and how this affects society moreover.
Original and timely, this book is a must for sports students on all levels. It will also be of immense use for students on courses that deal with public and social policy making.
An excellent critical anlysis of the impact of globalization on sports policy. A key supplementary text for Level 5 students.
An original and international focus on sporting policy. Well suited in endeavours to internationalise the curriculum.
An interesting overview of the sports industry of relevance to a variety of students.
An excellent overview of sport policy at the global level, which will be of use to a variety of sport scholars interested in political studies, sociology, development, or economics.
This is a good book that is well written. It adds nicely to a growing market of books on sport policy because it offers aquite specific 'global' focus, and does so froma broadly sociological (as opposed to political scientist) point of view, and this means it is offering something a little bit different as well. I was a little surprised that there was not more on WADA policies, however, given the global focus of such anti-doping policy.
Sage College Publishing
