The Politics of Sports Development

This book traces the evolution of sports development in the UK in the context of broader shifts in sport and social policy, and explores the emergence of sports development from the 1960s to the contemporary era.

Barrie Houlihan is Professor of Sport Policy, Institute of Sport and Leisure Policy, Loughborough University. Anita White is Visiting Professor, Loughborough University and Independent Consultant on Sport Policy and Sports Development.

1. The origins of sports development: the 1960s to the mid 1970s 2. The mid 1970s to the early 1990s: sports development comes of age 3. The early 1990s to 1997: welfare restructuring and Major's sporting glory 4. New Labour: the reinvigoration of sport development 5. Sports development in four local authorities 6. Sports development in four national governing bodies of sport 7. Development of sport and / or development through sport?