Sports figures, events, and organizations affect our society in vast, varied, and sometimes unexpected ways. To gain a broad-based understanding of how sport interfaces with public policy issues, a variety of viewpoints must be considered. Sport and Public Policy: Social, Political, and Economic Perspectives is the only text that examines some of the most compelling policy issues affecting the sports world from an interdisciplinary perspective--including economics, history, urban planning, not-for-profit administration, public health communications, political science, and philosophy. With contributions from a wide range of scholarly disciplines, this contemporary resource enhances traditional conversation and gives readers a fresh outlook on economic and political issues in sport. Sport and Public Policy presents a contemporary view of how to understand and analyze complex and controversial topics..
Part I. The Structure of Professional Sports -- Chapter 1.Cooperation Amidst Competition: The Nature of Sport Leagues / Nathaniel Sampson and Gerard C.S. Mildner ; Why League Cooperation Is Necessary ; Downside of Cooperation ; Organized Baseball: Evolution of a Cartel ; Antitrust Law Interpretations and Baseball ; Antitrust and Other Leagues: Are All Sports Equal? ; Effect of Public Policy on the Balance of Power ; Future Trends ; Conclusion -- Chapter 2. Beyond the Major Leagues: Lessons from the Organization of International Sports / Gerard C.S. Mildner ; Organization of Soccer, the World Sport ; Women’s Soccer: The Trial of a Single-Entity League ; Rugby: The Contest over Professionalism, Nations, and Clubs ; Cricket: The Broadcaster’s Leagues ; Lessons for American Sports ; Future Trends ; Conclusion -- Chapter 3. Why Professional Athletes Make So Much Money / Zenon X. Zygmont ; The NHL’s Missing Season ; Wage Determination in Professional Sports ; Free Agency ; Evaluating Player Productivity ; Is it Possible to Pay too Much? ; Future Trends ; Conclusion -- Part II. Professional Sports, Cities, and Public Finance -- Chapter 4. Economic Impact of Sport Stadiums, Teams and Events / Charles A. Santo ; Public Cost of Big-Time Sports ; Economic Magnitude of Sports in Perspective ; Promoting Sport Investment Through Economic Impact Analysis ; Sources of Exaggeration in Economic Impact Analysis ; Ex Post Facto Empirical Evaluations ; Policy Implications on Predicted Economic Impacts ; Conclusion -- Chapter 5. Cities, Stadiums, and Subsidies: Why Cities Spend So Much on Sports / Charles A. Santo ; Evolution of Major League Sport Facility Development ; Political Economy of Sport Facility Development ; Importance of Consumption Benefits ; Future Trends ; Conclusion --
Chapter 6. Community Ownership of Professional Sport Teams and the Role of Social Entrepreneurship / Dorothy Norris-Tirrell and Susan Tomlinson Schmidt ; Identifying Community Ownership Alternatives ; Using the Nonprofit-Charitable Purpose Structure: The Memphis Redbirds Baseball ; Foundation ; Future Trends ; Conclusion -- Part III. Amateur Athletics, Participation, and Public Health -- Chapter 7. Influences of Urban Form on Physical Activity / Jennifer Dill and Lynn Weigand ; Importance and Decline of Physical Activity in the United States ; How Urban Growth Has Made Us Less Active ; Public Policies to Increase Physical Activity ; Do These Strategies Work? ; Future Trends ; Conclusion -- Chapter 8. MLB’s Mixed Messages: African American Participation in Baseball / David C. Ogden ; Myth and Semiotics ; Analyzing MLB’s Messages ; Moving from Political Speech to Myth ; Challenging Myth ; Policy Implications for Myth Making ; Future Trends ; Conclusion -- Chapter 9.Contradictions and Conflicts: Ethical Dilemmas Inherent in Big-Time College Sports / Richard Southall, Mark S. Nagel, John Amis,and Crystal Southall ; College Sports Today ; National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) ; Corporatization in College Sports ; Institutional Logics ; Case Study: 2006 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament Broadcasts ; Future Trends ; Conclusion -- Chapter 10. Sport, Doping, and Public Policy / Bryan E. Denham ; Mediated Doping Representations and the Formation of Public Policy ; Sporting Competition and the Formation of Regulatory Bodies ; Media Representations, Government Hearings, and Public Policy in the 21st Century ; Future Trends ; Conclusion -- Part IV. Sports and Globalization --
Chapter 11. Political Economy of the Olympic Games / Gregory Andranovich, Matthew J. Burbank, and Charles H. Heying ; Globalization, the New Economy, and Political Economy ; Political Economy and the Olympic Games ; Los Angeles: The Market Matters Most ; Atlanta: The State Matters Most ; Mexico City: Civil Society Matters Most ; Future Trends ; Conclusion -- Chapter 12. American Baseball and the Global Labor Market: Resistance and Hegemony in the Caribbean / Charles A. Santo ; Globalization of American Professional Baseball ; Shared History and Parallel Development of Caribbean Baseball ; Dominican Dependency, Underdevelopment, and Exploitation ; Cuban Nationalism and Resistance ; Movement Along the Spectrum ; Future Trends ; Conclusion -- Chapter 13. Expanding Global Consumer Market for American Sports: The World Baseball Classic / Mark S. Nagel, Matt T. Brown, Dan A. Rascher, and Chad D. McEvoy ; Baseball’s Worldwide Development ; The Consumption of MLB in the United States ; The Creation of the World Baseball Classic ; World Baseball Classic Revenue Sources ; Future Trends ; Conclusion