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Anti-bid Politics

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Failed Olympic Bids and the Transformation of Urban Space

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This chapter evaluates the decline of bidding candidate cities, due to a lack of interest in democratic polities and anti-bid protest campaigns. Protest campaigns are effectively contesting the ‘politics of contingency’ often used by bid boosters—in which the contingent nature of a bid and bid failure is used to pursue projects outside the scope of normal planning procedures. They are also capitalizing on a changing political economic relationship between the IOC and bid city governments, as the latter cancel their bids rather than take on the risks and costs expected by the former.

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  1. Virginia Tech University, Blacksburg, VA, USA

    Robert Oliver

  2. City University of New York, New York, NY, USA

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Oliver, R., Lauermann, J. (2017). Anti-bid Politics. In: Failed Olympic Bids and the Transformation of Urban Space. Mega Event Planning. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59823-3_7

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