<title>Abstract</title> In France, the legitimacy of public policy is set in a context of decreasing support for public institutions. As a consequence, policy makers increasingly rely upon the concept of civil society in their political actions. This is the case for the creation of sport policy on contentious...

This paper empirically illustrates the difference between a standard economic impact analysis (EIA) and a cost-benefit analysis (CBA). The EIA was conducted using an existing (input-output) I-O model (STEAM). The benefit side of the CBA included non-local visitor spending, the revenue of the...