What's the Big Idea? Reading the Rhetoric of a National Sport Policy Process

Sociology of Sport Journal

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 189-213

  Sam, Michael P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

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EID: 0141614018     PISSN: 07411235     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1123/ssj.20.3.189     Document Type: Article

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