The Routledge Handbook of Sport Policy is the only book to offer a comprehensive overview of current perspectives, techniques and approaches to the analysis of sport policy around the world. The book introduces a diverse range of approaches to policy analysis across the full range of political and societal contexts. With contributions from leading policy analysts around the world, including Europe, North America, the Middle East and Asia, this book is important reading for any student, researcher or professional working in sport management, sport development, sport and society, or mainstream public policy, policy analysis or social policy.

Ian Henry is Professor and Director of the Centre for Olympic Studies and Research at Loughborough University, UK. His research has incorporated a wide range of work in the field of sport policy analysis and in Olympic research commissioned by transnational bodies such as the IOC, UNESCO and the EU, as well as by a range of governmental and sporting bodies in the UK.
Ling-Mei Ko is Assistant Professor of the Department of Leisure, Recreation and Tourism Management in the College of Business at Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology. Her current research interests lie in issues relating to sport and leisure policies and sport management, particularly in the area of human capital.

Part I Theoretical perspectives and methodologies; Chapter 1 Analysing Sport Policy in a Globalising Context, Ian Henry, Ling-Mei Ko; Chapter 2 Theorising the Analysis of Sport Policy, Barrie Houlihan; Chapter 3 Discourse Analysis and its Application to Sport Policy Analysis, Piggin Joe; Chapter 4 Meta-Evaluation, Analytic Logic Models and the Assessment of Impacts, Shushu Chen, Ian Henry, Ling-Mei Ko; Chapter 5 The Role, Contributions and Limitations of Cost-Benefit Analysis in The Analysis of Sport Policy, Ming Li, Kong-Ting Yeh; Part II Globalisation, governance, partnerships and networks in sport policy; Chapter 6 The Global Governance of Sport, Jean-Loup Chappelet; Chapter 7 The Developing Role of the European Union, Borja García; Chapter 8 Non-Governmental Organisations in Sport for Development and Peace, Oscar Mwaanga; Chapter 9 Evaluating Olympic Solidarity 1982-2012, Marie Therese Zammit, Ian Henry; Chapter 10 Multiculturalism and Federal Sport Policy in Canada, Wendy Frisby, Lucie Thibault, Kathryn Cureton; Chapter 11 European Models of Sport, Ling-Mei Ko, Ian Henry, Wei-Chun Tai; Chapter 12 Globalisation, Sport Policy and China, Tien-Chin Tan; Chapter 13 Clientelism and Sport Policy in Taiwan, Ping-Chao Lee, Ren-Shiang Jiang; Chapter 14 Sport and Media Policy, Matthew Nicholson, Russell Hoye; Chapter 15 Leveraging Sport Events, Laurence Chalip, Bob Heere; Part III Elite sports policies; Chapter 16 Methodologies for Identifying and Comparing, Veerle de Bosscher, Maarten van Bottenburg, Simon Shibli; Chapter 17 Measuring and Forecasting Elite Sporting Success, Simon Shibli, Veerle de Bosscher, Maarten van Bottenburg; Chapter 18 Promoting Student-Athlete Interests In European Elite Sport Systems, Dawn Aquilina, Ian Henry; Chapter 19 Anti-Doping Policy, Paul Dimeo, Thomas M. Hunt; Part IV Development, sport and joint policy agendas; Chapter 20 The Evaluation of Sport and Social Inclusion Policy Programmes, Chris Kennett; Chapter 21 Sport Development and Community Development, Iain Lindsey, Andrew Adams; Chapter 22 Sport and Urban Regeneration, Juan Luis Paramio-Salcines; Chapter 23 Methodologies for Evaluating the Use of Sport for Development in Post-Conflict Contexts, María Rato Barrio, Clemens Ley; Part V Social theory and sports policy; Chapter 24 Feminist Analysis of Sport Policy, Sally Shaw; Chapter 25 A Post-Colonial Approach to Sport Policy, Mahfoud Amara; Chapter 26 The Economics of Sport Policy, Christoph Breuer, Kirstin Hallmann; Chapter 27 Sport Governance, Russell Hoye; Chapter 28 Sports Policy and Social Capital, Eivind Å Skille;