Offers a collection that is unique in encompassing the range of key organisations involved in sport policy implementation in the UK. Combines academic and practitioner perspectives, thereby offering both overarching analysis and specific, insider accounts in respect of different organisations involved in sport policy implementation. Editors have longstanding expertise and reputations in sport policy analysis. Locates sport policy implementation and its relative successes and failures within a broader theoretical and political frame. Provides a key text for overseas academics, students and policy makers interested in comparative analysis of sport policy in the UK.