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Author Whannel, Garry.

Title The trojan horse : the growth of commercial sponsorship / by Garry Whannel and Deborah Philips.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The moment of 1945 and its legacy -- A culture of consensus: the arts from 1945 -- Pay up and play the game: sport and sponsorship -- Neo-liberalism and New Labour: from Thatcher to Blair -- Culture and enterprise: the arts from 1979 -- One amazing day ... : the Millennium Dome -- Education, education, education -- Safe in their hands: health and the market -- All in it together?
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Summary The Trojan Horse traces the growth of commercial sponsorship in the public sphere since the 1960s, its growing importance for the arts since 1980 and its spread into areas such as education and health. The authors' central argument is that the image of sponsorship as corporate benevolence has served to routinize and legitimate the presence of commerce within the public sector. The central metaphor is of such sponsorship as a Trojan Horse helping to facilitate the hollowing out of the public sector by private agencies and private finance. The authors place the study in the context of the more g.
Local Note Bloomsbury Publishing Bloomsbury Open Access
Subject Corporate sponsorship -- Great Britain -- History.
Corporate sponsorship -- History.
Public administration.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Public Relations.
Corporate sponsorship. (OCoLC)fst00879716
Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
Management.
Business & Economics.
Management Styles & Communication.
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author Philips, Deborah, 1954-
Other Form: Print version: Whannel, Garry. Trojan horse. New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013 9781472507389 (DLC) 2013002693 (OCoLC)827528425
ISBN 9781472508386 (electronic book)
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