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1. The Politics Of Leisure And Policy -- Leisure Politics And Policy In Industrialising Britain -- 2. Political Ideology And Central Government Leisure Policy -- Liberalism: The Political Philosophy Of The New Right -- Conservatism -- Socialism -- New Labour: In Search Of A Third Way -- The Consequences Of Political Ideologies For Leisure Policy -- Gender, Race, Political Ideologies And Leisure Policy -- The Erosion Of The Social Democratic Consensus -- 3. Leisure, The State And Policy: New Labour In The New Millennium -- 'new Economic Realism' And The Restructuring Of The Welfare State: Some Leisure Policy Continuities Across Labour And Conservative, Governments, 1976-84 -- State Flexibilisation And Disinvestment: Part 1 -- The Emergence Of A New Right Leisure Policy Agenda In The Later Thatcher Governments, 1985-90 -- Flexibilisation And Disinvestment: Part 2 -- Leisure Policy And The Major Administrations, 1990-7 -- New Labour And The Search For A Responsible Market --^ Leisure, The State And Social Theory -- 4. Local Government And Leisure Policy: From The Thatcher Era To The Modernisation Agenda -- Local Government Leisure Services In The 1970s: An Arm Of The Welfare State -- Local Government And New Economic Realism, 1976-85 -- Flexibilisation And Disinvestment In Local Government Leisure Services: The Conservative Governments Of 1985-97 -- In Search Of The Responsible Market: Local Government And New Labour's Modernising Agenda -- 5. The Leisure Professionals -- From Facility Managers To Liberal Welfare Professionals: Public Sector Leisure Management In The 1970s -- Professionalism In Local Government Under Pressure In The 1980s: From Welfare Ideology To New Economic Realism -- Leisure And Management In The Context Of The Flexible State And Disinvestment: The New Right, New Managerialism And Competitive Management -- In Search Of The Responsible Market: From Contract Culture To Transformational Management --^ 6. The Commercial And Voluntary Sectors -- The Historical Context Of The Development Of The Commercial And Voluntary Sectors In Leisure In Industrial Britain -- The Leisure And The Commercial Sector In Britain At The Beginning Of The Twenty-first Century -- Leisure And The Voluntary Sector In Britain In The 1980s And 1990s -- 7. Social Regulation And The Governance Of Leisure -- Regulation Theory: Explanations Of The Changing Global Political Economy -- Thatcherism As A Hegemonic Project, Post-fordism And Urban Leisure Policy -- Post-fordist Local Government And Leisure Policy -- Leisure Policy In Sheffield: The Journey From Left Fordist To Right Post-fordist Strategy -- Conclusion: Some Comments On Local, National And Transnational Influences On Leisure Policy -- 8. Leisure Politics And Policy: Strategic Relations In The Global Context -- Strategic Relations And Policy: The City And The Nation-state -- Strategic Relations And Leisure Policy: The European Union. Ian P. Henry. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 254-274) And Index.