Sport Participation and Olympic Legacies: A comparative study (Routledge Research in Sport Politics and Policy)

Vital reading for students, researchers or policy makers working in sport development or management.. Offering a new theoretical framework and rich empirical data, it covers key topics such as governance, implementation and evaluation. This book offers a comparative analysis of community sport policy in three countries: England, the US and Russia. It examines success factors and explanations for failure, and explores the social, cultural, political and economic contexts that shape community sport in those countries. Provision of, and participation in, community-level sport has risen up the policy agenda in many countries, as a tool for tackling social exclusion and improving well-being

. Bowers is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Sport Management at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. Matthew T. Peter Smolianov is a Professor of Sport Management at Salem State University, USA. About the AuthorSpencer Harris is an Assistant Professor of Sport Management at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA

Matthew T. . Bowers is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Sport Management at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. Spencer Harris is an Assistant Professor of Sport Management at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA. Peter Smolianov is a Professor of Sport Management at Salem State University, USA