Effectiveness of national elite sport policies: A multidimensional approach applied to the case of Flanders

European Sport Management Quarterly

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 115-141

  de Bosscher, Veerle ^a   Shilbury, David ^b   Theeboom, Marc ^a   van Hoecke, Jo ^a   de Knop, Paul ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Effectiveness; Elite sport policies; Policy evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 79956294750     PISSN: 16184742     EISSN: 1746031X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/16184742.2011.559133     Document Type: Article

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