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This chapter looks at the structure of sport in England, its financing, and gives a brief history of sport policy. The second half of this chapter looks at how sports participation is measured and provides an overview of the pattern of sport participation and how it has changed over the recent past.
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Gratton, C., Taylor, P., Rowe, N. (2013). UK: England. In: Hallmann, K., Petry, K. (eds) Comparative Sport Development. Sports Economics, Management and Policy, vol 8. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8905-4_13
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