This book identifies, illustrates and evaluates the major approaches to comparative and transnational analysis in sports studies, addressing common assumptions that can hamper meaningful research.

Part 1 The Theoretical and Substantive Contexts of Comparative and Trans-national Sports Policy Analysis

1. Globalisation, Governance of Sport and the Nation State Ian Henry

2. Methodologies in Comparative and Trans-national Sports Policy Research Ian Henry

3. The View from the West: Postmodern and Orientalist Perspectives Ian Henry with Mansour Al-Tauqi

Part 2 Type I Comparisons - Seeking Similarities (Statistically)

4. Analysing Models of Sporting Excellence Simon Shibli

Part 3 Type II Comparisons - Describing Difference

5. Symbolic Regimes in Urban Sport Ian Henry and Paramio Salcines

6. Clientelism in Sports Policy - the Cases of Greece and Taiwan Ian Henry, P.C. Lee and P. Nassis

7. Sport and Multiculturalism: an analysis of European Union Member States' Policies Ian Henry, Mahfoud Amara and Dawn Aquilina

Part 4 Type III Comparisons - Theorising the Transnational

8. Regulation Theory and the Changing Governance of Sport in Britain and Japan Ian Henry and K. Uchiumi

Part 5 Type IV Comparisons - Defining Discourse

9. Professionalisation of Sport in the Changing Discourses of the Algerian Political System Mahfoud Amara and Ian Henry

Conclusion

10. Future Directions for Policy and Its Analysis Ian Henry