Network Analysis of Early Childhood Sports Policy in China:Actors,Network Structure and Network Interaction
Using textual analysis and policy network theory as an analytical framework,the paper studies the policy network of early childhood sports in China.The paper concludes that there are five types of early childhood sports policy networks in China:policy communities,inter-governmental networks,professional networks,producer networks and issue networks.Currently,there are di-vergent values of interests in policy networks,loose structure of policy networks,limited participation in issue networks,and imple-mentation bias in producer networks.It is recommended to form a value orientation with the purpose of enhancing young children's physical health,increase the number of policy community actors to consolidate the network structure,strengthen horizontal interac-tion and vertical expression among policy networks and establish a monitoring and evaluation mechanism for early childhood sport policies.
sport managementsport governanceearly childhood sportsport policypolicy network theory