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1. The Youth Olympic Games

   Edited by Dag Vidar Hanstad, Milena Parent, Barrie Houlihan

   Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

   The first summer Youth Olympic Games (YOG) were held in Singapore in 2010 and the first winter Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck in 2012. The IOC hopes that the YOG will encourage young people to be more active and that they will bring the Olympic movement closer to its original founding values....

   To Be Published April 14th 2014 by Routledge
2. Anti-doping: Policy and Governance

   Edited by Barrie Houlihan, Mike McNamee

   The book addresses a series of key aspects of contemporary anti-doping policy. At the broader philosophical level, questions are asked about whether the scale of anti-doping activity and the intrusiveness of anti-doping policy in the lives of athletes is proportionate to the problem of doping....

   Published March 6th 2013 by Routledge
3. Routledge Handbook of Sports Development

   Edited by Barrie Houlihan, Mick Green

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   Sports development has become a prominent concern within both the academic study of sport and within the organisation and administration of sport. Now available in paperback, the Routledge Handbook of Sports Development is the first book to comprehensively map the wide-ranging territory of sports...

   Published January 9th 2013 by Routledge
4. Sport Policy in Britain

   By Barrie Houlihan, Iain Lindsey

   Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

   Since 1990, Britain has seen a period of unprecedented public investment in, and political commitment to, sport. In this book, Iain Lindsey and Barrie Houlihan examine and analyze sport policy since the appointment of John Major as leader of the Conservative Party in 1990. John Major’s period as...

   Published October 18th 2012 by Routledge
5. Social Capital and Sport Governance in Europe

   Edited by Margaret Groeneveld, Barrie Houlihan, Fabien Ohl

   Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

   Although there is significant interest in the social role of sport in fostering civil society from both policymakers and academics, there is a lack of evidence of the specific role of sport federations in this system. This book critically presents the mechanisms and structures in a selection of...

   Published September 4th 2012 by Routledge
6. Routledge Handbook of Sports Development

   Edited by Barrie Houlihan, Mick Green

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   Sports development has become a prominent concern within both the academic study of sport and within the organization and administration of sport. The Routledge Handbook of Sports Development is the first book to comprehensively map the wide-ranging territory of sports development as an activity...

   Published December 14th 2010 by Routledge
7. Participation in Sport

   International Policy Perspectives

   Edited by Matthew Nicholson, Russell Hoye, Barrie Houlihan

   Although there is growing interest from governments in participation levels in sport, the extent to which governments actively promote ‘sport for all’ and their motives for doing so vary greatly. This is the first book to examine the sport participation policies of national governments across the...

   Published September 6th 2010 by Routledge
8. Sport and Policy

   By Barrie Houlihan, Chris Auld, Matthew Nicholson, Russell Hoye

   Series: Sport Management Series

   Sport and Policy is the first book of its kind to critically analyse the regulatory role of the state and its impact on sport and the intersections of sport with other areas of government policy. Offering a unique and comprehensive examination of how sport is affected by a range of government...

   Published August 27th 2009 by Routledge
9. Comparative Elite Sport Development

   Edited by Barrie Houlihan, Mick Green

   There is a paucity of academic work in the area of elite sport development despite there being ample evidence that achieving international sporting success is of increasing importance to the public (exemplified by consistent media interest in elite success or the lack of it) and to governments in...

   Published November 18th 2007 by Routledge
10. Sport Policy

    By Nils Asle Bergsgard, Barrie Houlihan, Per Mangset, Svein Ingve Nødland, Hilmar Rommetvedt

    Sport Policy: a comparative analysis of stability and change builds on the growing general interest in the comparative study of sport policy and the more specific interest in processes of policy change and issues associated with policy convergence. In stark contrast to many other areas of public...

    Published April 23rd 2007 by Routledge