Name, Image, and Likeness Policies - Institutional Impact and States Responses

This book examines the path that name, image, and likeness (NIL) has taken in the first years of the policy, how the expansion has led to differing approaches across state and universities, and how administrators in selected states are dealing with the rulemaking power they have.

List of contents

1. Introduction to the world of NIL in college athletics 2. Sports, civic pride, and the rapid spread of NIL policy in the U.S. 3. A comprehensive review of state NIL policies: Trends, missteps, and connections to policy adoption 4. Implementing NIL: Administrative discretion, ethics, and skills in a changing college sports landscape 5. NIL as a neoliberal policy: The rise of sport capitalism and its connection to marketing, pay-for-play, and third-party involvement in college sports 6. Moving forward with NIL

About the author

Darrell Lovell is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at West Texas A&M University and serves as the director of the Master of Public Administration (MPA) program. His research focuses on the intersection of education and policy and administration theory. Particularly, he has focused on policy diffusion in education policy as well as the application of street-level bureaucracy and public management in education systems. His most recent work on organizational public communication has been published in Administration & Society, the Journal of Public and Non-profit Affairs, and the Administrative Theory & Praxis.
Daniel J. Mallinson is an Associate Professor of Public Policy and Administration at Penn State Harrisburg. His primary research interests include policy process theory (particularly policy diffusion and punctuated equilibrium), state government, drug policy, mental health policy, and energy policy. He has previously co-edited the Palgrave Handbook of Political Research Pedagogy (2021) and Strategies for Navigating Graduate School and Beyond (2022). He has forthcoming books on cannabis policy with A. Lee Hannah.

Product details

• Authors: Darrell Lovell, Darrell (West Texas A&m University Lovell, Daniel Mallinson
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.05.2025
• EAN: 9781032463186
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3246318-6
• No. of pages: 124
• Series: Routledge Research in Public Administration and Public Policy
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / General, LAW / Sports, Political structure & processes, Public Administration, Sports management & facilities, Sports management and facilities, Sport & the law, Political structure and processes, Regional, state and other local government, Regional government, Sport and the law