The Politics of Leisure Policy (Public Policy and Politics)

Annotation Providing a comprehensive account of the major issues in relation to sports, arts and recreational policy in the 1990s, the book traces the relationship between local and central government and private provision, and the political ideologies which have shaped it, particularly of the New Right Front Matter....Pages i-xi The Politics of Leisure and Policy....Pages 1-25 Political Ideology and Central Government Leisure Policy....Pages 26-59 Leisure, the State and Policy in Modern Britain....Pages 60-89 Local Government and Leisure Policy: The Heritage of Thatcherism....Pages 90-109 The Leisure Professionals....Pages 110-137 The Commercial and Voluntary Sectors....Pages 138-170 Leisure Policy, Post-Fordism and Local Government....Pages 171-209 Back Matter....Pages 210-235 The Politics of Leisure Policy provides a comprehensive account of the major issues in relation to sports, arts and recreational policy in the 1990s. It traces the relationship between local and central government and private provision and the political ideologies which have shaped it - notably a whole decade of New Right thinking which has left its legacy in a policy agenda dominated by economic rather than social aesthetic and conservationist criteria