TY  - BOOK
AU  - Henry,Ian P.
TI  - The politics of leisure policy
T2  - Public policy and politics
SN  - 033394853X
AV  - GV73. H46 2001
U1  - 306.4812094 
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Basingstoke, Hampshire, New York
PB  - Palgrave
KW  - Leisure
KW  - Government policy
KW  - Europe
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1; The Politics of Leisure and Policy; Leisure politics and policy in industrialising Britain --; 2; Political Ideology and Central Government Leisure Policy; Liberalism: the political philosophy of the New Right; Conservatism; Socialism; New Labour: in search of a Third Way; The consequences of political ideologies for leisure policy; Gender, race, political ideologies and leisure policy; The erosion of the social democratic consensus --; 3; Leisure, the State and Policy: New Labour in the New Millennium; 'New economic realism' and the restructuring of the Welfare State: some leisure policy continuities across Labour and Conservative, governments, 1976-84; State flexibilisation and disinvestment: part 1 - the emergence of a New Right leisure policy agenda in the later Thatcher governments, 1985-90; Flexibilisation and disinvestment: part 2 - leisure policy and the Major administrations, 1990-7; New Labour and the search for a responsible market; Leisure, the state and social theory --; 4; Local Government and Leisure Policy: from the Thatcher Era to the Modernisation Agenda; Local government leisure services in the 1970s: an arm of the Welfare State; Local government and New Economic Realism, 1976-85; Flexibilisation and disinvestment in local government leisure services: the Conservative governments of 1985-97; In search of the responsible market: local government and New Labour's modernising agenda --; 5; The Leisure Professionals; From facility managers to liberal welfare professionals: public sector leisure management in the 1970s; Professionalism in local government under pressure in the 1980s: from welfare ideology to new economic realism; Leisure and management in the context of the flexible state and disinvestment: the New Right, new managerialism and competitive management; In search of the responsible market: from contract culture to transformational management --; 6; The Commercial and Voluntary Sectors; The historical context of the development of the commercial and voluntary sectors in leisure in industrial Britain; The leisure and the commercial sector in Britain at the beginning of the twenty-first century; Leisure and the voluntary sector in Britain in the 1980s and 1990s --; 7; Social Regulation and the Governance of Leisure; Regulation theory: explanations of the changing global political economy; Thatcherism as a hegemonic project, post-Fordism and urban leisure policy; Post-Fordist local government and leisure policy; Leisure policy in Sheffield: the journey from left Fordist to right post-Fordist strategy; Conclusion: some comments on local, national and transnational influences on leisure policy --; 8; Leisure Politics and Policy: Strategic Relations in the Global Context; Strategic relations and policy: the city and the nation-state; Strategic relations and leisure policy: the European Union
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