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Mechanisms of policy failure: Boston’s 2024 Olympic bid.
- Source :
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Urban Studies (Sage Publications, Ltd.) . Nov2018, Vol. 55 Issue 15, p3369-3384. 16p. - Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- Planning for mega-events such as the Olympics is at a turning point. There has been a power shift in the relationship between cities and the International Olympic Committee towards the former. This shift is based on the emergence of anti-bid opposition movements; the increasing complexity of bidding; demands for locally relevant legacies; and a changing political economic relationship between citizens, city governments and sports federations. Our paper draws on a long-term study of Boston’s failed bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympics, based on an ethnography within the bidding corporation and interviews with pro- and anti-bid stakeholders. We lay out the reasons why the Boston bid failed, and conclude that bid failure involves factors that work against elitist powers and towards democratic beneficiaries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *DECISION making
*OLYMPIC Games
*LOCAL government
*SPECIAL events
*URBAN planning
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00420980
- Volume :
- 55
- Issue :
- 15
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Urban Studies (Sage Publications, Ltd.)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 132790377
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098017740286