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Policy transfer and learning from the West: elite basketball development in the People's Republic of China
journal contribution
posted on 2014-09-12, 12:59 authored by Barrie Houlihan, Tien-Chin Tan, Mick GreenThe article examines the engagement of the People’s Republic of China with global
sport using basketball as an example. Following a discussion of the priority given
to national elite team sport success in contemporary China, the article explores
the range of mechanisms that facilitate sport globalization and focuses particularly
on evaluating the utility of the concepts of policy transfer and lesson drawing.
The examination of the concepts is achieved through the exploration of a series
of questions relating to recent developments in basketball in China, including how
the need for reform of the domestic system was recognized and articulated, who
was instrumental in transferring policy, which countries were identified as suitable
exemplars, and which policies were transferred. The article draws on data collected
from a number of sources, including official government documents, news media, and
a series of interviews with Chinese officials from key governmental organizations.
The article concludes that the concepts of policy transfer and lesson drawing provide
significant insight into the process of China’s engagement in basketball, and identifies
a series of tensions arising from the process that affect contemporary sport policy.
History
School
- Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
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JOURNAL OF SPORT & SOCIAL ISSUESVolume
34Issue
1Pages
4 - 28 (25)Citation
HOULIHAN, B., TAN, T.-C. and GREEN, M., 2010. Policy transfer and learning from the West: elite basketball development in the People's Republic of China. Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 34 (1), pp. 4 - 28.Publisher
© Sage Publications on behalf of Northeastern University's Center for the Study of Sport in SocietyVersion
- SMUR (Submitted Manuscript Under Review)
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2010Notes
This article was published in the serial, Journal of Sport and Social Issues [© Sage Publications on behalf of Northeastern University's Center for the Study of Sport in Society]. The definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0193723509358971ISSN
0193-7235Publisher version
Language
- en