Developing national sport policy through consultation: The rules of engagement Research Completed

Title

Developing national sport policy through consultation: The rules of engagement

Lead Author

M Sam and S J Jackson

Organisation(s)

University of Otago

Publication Year

2006

Publisher

Journal of Sport Management, 20(3), 366-87.

Contacts

Abstract

 

This study illustrates how the rules and practices of a task force inquiry shaped the formulation of its policy. Adopting an institutional approach, it analyses New Zealand’s Ministerial Taskforce on Sport, Fitness and Leisure (2001). Specifically, this article investigates the role of institutional arrangements (including public consultation and submission procedures) in shaping, delimiting, and circumscribing that taskforce’s findings and recommendations. The investigation consists of a critical analysis of available texts and interviews with task force members. Two features of this task force are described and analysed: (1) its terms of reference and operative assumptions and (2) its rules and procedures that guided the public participation processes. It is shown that the institutional arrangements can channel debates and thereby recast political relations among interests

Keywords:

central government, physical activity, policy, politics, sports

Areas of Focus

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December 14, 2011