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Articles

From ‘passive custodian’ to ‘active advocate’: tracing the emergence and sport-internal transformative effects of sport policy advocacy

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Pages 447-463 | Received 24 Jul 2018, Accepted 05 Feb 2019, Published online: 07 Mar 2019

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