Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/19406940.2023.2239822
M. Mutz, M. Gerke, S. Müller, H. Meier
ABSTRACT Criticism has accompanied some of the most recent decisions of international sports organisations for the staging of Olympic Games or FIFA World Cups. Many hosts – from Russia and China to Qatar – have been heavily criticised in Western countries (e.g. Germany) for political and societal grievances up to and including calls for protests and boycotts. This raises several questions concerning the public acceptance of hosting decisions: What criteria does the public consider to be most important when hosting decisions are made? What role should be given to political vs. sports-related criteria? Which population groups are more likely to prioritise political criteria over sports-related criteria? The paper provides insights into these questions based on a representative survey (N = 1,002) from Germany. Results show that Germans consider political and sustainability criteria as of highest importance for justifying hosting decisions. The findings also reveal a latent conflict between political criteria and sports-related criteria. Support for prioritising political considerations (instead of sporting criteria) when making hosting decisions comes from younger, female, politically engaged and politically left individuals, but much less strongly from the core group of media sports consumers.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-29DOI: 10.1080/19406940.2023.2228824
M. Parent, Paul Jurbala
ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper was to (1) present and critically reflect upon a national sport policy’s implementation and monitoring process in a multi-level, multi-sectoral context from an insider’s perspective and (2) provide recommendations for future research and policymakers regarding sport policy implementation and monitoring. Based on hundreds of documents (e.g. formal and personal meeting notes, formative and summative evaluation reports) gathered over the policy’s lifespan, the paper critically reflects on the second Canadian Sport Policy’s (CSP) implementation process between 2012 and 2022, which comprised grassroots, high performance, and sport for development goals, using the multiple governance framework. The reflection highlights key challenges for implementing a soft (national sport) policy in a complex, multi-level, multi-sectoral governance context, such as the normative soft policy seeing a ‘policy for all’ becoming a ‘policy for no one’, no stakeholder accountability per se, nor power for the policy intermediary to enforce implementation. This resulted in the CSP 2012’s ceremonial attribution of success because any action could be seen as fitting within policy goals. The paper highlights the importance of (1) aligning policy development, implementation, and evaluation between macro and micro levels; (2) a more holistic policy implementation process analysis using in situ methods; (3) understanding the personal experiences, struggles, and tensions found within policy implementation to explain potential outcomes; (4) policy ambiguity and equifinality limiting policy implementation evaluation; (5) resources/dedicated funding as a policy implementation success driver; and (6) potential tools (e.g. use of outside experts, conceptual maps) for soft policy implementers/monitors and researchers.
{"title":"The process of implementing a multi-level and multi-sectoral national sport policy: cautionary lessons from the inside","authors":"M. Parent, Paul Jurbala","doi":"10.1080/19406940.2023.2228824","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19406940.2023.2228824","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper was to (1) present and critically reflect upon a national sport policy’s implementation and monitoring process in a multi-level, multi-sectoral context from an insider’s perspective and (2) provide recommendations for future research and policymakers regarding sport policy implementation and monitoring. Based on hundreds of documents (e.g. formal and personal meeting notes, formative and summative evaluation reports) gathered over the policy’s lifespan, the paper critically reflects on the second Canadian Sport Policy’s (CSP) implementation process between 2012 and 2022, which comprised grassroots, high performance, and sport for development goals, using the multiple governance framework. The reflection highlights key challenges for implementing a soft (national sport) policy in a complex, multi-level, multi-sectoral governance context, such as the normative soft policy seeing a ‘policy for all’ becoming a ‘policy for no one’, no stakeholder accountability per se, nor power for the policy intermediary to enforce implementation. This resulted in the CSP 2012’s ceremonial attribution of success because any action could be seen as fitting within policy goals. The paper highlights the importance of (1) aligning policy development, implementation, and evaluation between macro and micro levels; (2) a more holistic policy implementation process analysis using in situ methods; (3) understanding the personal experiences, struggles, and tensions found within policy implementation to explain potential outcomes; (4) policy ambiguity and equifinality limiting policy implementation evaluation; (5) resources/dedicated funding as a policy implementation success driver; and (6) potential tools (e.g. use of outside experts, conceptual maps) for soft policy implementers/monitors and researchers.","PeriodicalId":47174,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41364573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-29DOI: 10.1080/19406940.2023.2228803
A. May, Tom Bason
ABSTRACT This article investigates the impacts of global legal rulings and political agreements on domestic sport, and charts the responses of national governing bodies to these changes. The article studies rulings and agreements that impacted on employment practices within professional sport. The impact of the 2003 Kolpak ruling and the 2000 Cotonou Agreement on the movement of sportspeople is analysed. Through the context of English county cricket, this article develops Appadurai’s conceptualisation of global flows, particularly ethnoscapes and finanscapes, to investigate how these international rulings and agreements particularly impacted South African migration into the UK. The responses of cricketing governing bodies in England and South Africa are analysed, and the response of the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) to ‘Brexit’ is also examined. Longitudinal data were collected on the migration of cricket players within English county cricket from 1998 to 2021 (n = 2,192), a period encompassing the duration of which the Kolpak ruling applied. Further data were collected regarding the financial situation of the England and Wales Cricket Board, Cricket South Africa and the domestic cricket teams. We find four distinct periods within the timeframe, influenced by international policy. Despite cricket governing bodies in the UK and South Africa setting mitigating regulations, the Kolpak ruling led South African cricketers of international standard to migrate to the UK. Ultimately, it required Brexit for cricket’s governing bodies to control the migration of sportspeople into the UK.
{"title":"Governance responses to international agreements: The impact of the Kolpak ruling on cricket 1998-2021","authors":"A. May, Tom Bason","doi":"10.1080/19406940.2023.2228803","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19406940.2023.2228803","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article investigates the impacts of global legal rulings and political agreements on domestic sport, and charts the responses of national governing bodies to these changes. The article studies rulings and agreements that impacted on employment practices within professional sport. The impact of the 2003 Kolpak ruling and the 2000 Cotonou Agreement on the movement of sportspeople is analysed. Through the context of English county cricket, this article develops Appadurai’s conceptualisation of global flows, particularly ethnoscapes and finanscapes, to investigate how these international rulings and agreements particularly impacted South African migration into the UK. The responses of cricketing governing bodies in England and South Africa are analysed, and the response of the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) to ‘Brexit’ is also examined. Longitudinal data were collected on the migration of cricket players within English county cricket from 1998 to 2021 (n = 2,192), a period encompassing the duration of which the Kolpak ruling applied. Further data were collected regarding the financial situation of the England and Wales Cricket Board, Cricket South Africa and the domestic cricket teams. We find four distinct periods within the timeframe, influenced by international policy. Despite cricket governing bodies in the UK and South Africa setting mitigating regulations, the Kolpak ruling led South African cricketers of international standard to migrate to the UK. Ultimately, it required Brexit for cricket’s governing bodies to control the migration of sportspeople into the UK.","PeriodicalId":47174,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics","volume":"15 1","pages":"511 - 529"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49413938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-27DOI: 10.1080/19406940.2023.2228835
L. Mukaruzima, Jimmy Duhamahoro, J. Frantz
ABSTRACT Sport is an adaptable channel for change. It has been widely used to enhance health and wellbeing, foster social cohesion, and engender peace and development in different societies. The government of Rwanda developed a Sports Development Policy (SDP) to advance sports within the spectrum of its development agendas. However, the extent to which health constructs are integrated and implemented within the tenets of this policy remain unexplored, despite their pivotal role in population wellbeing and in contributing to the country’s overarching development goals. This study sought to understand if and how the Rwanda SDP promotes sports for health from the stakeholders’ perspectives. In-depth semi structured interviews were used for thirteen purposively sampled stakeholders of the SDP. Thematic and narrative analysis were used to examine and report the findings. Themes highlighted a progressive awareness of the Sports Policy pertaining to health outcomes, less involvement of stakeholders in sport policy formulation which affected its implementation, disproportionate efforts between sports policies for health, competitive, and mass sports activities. Stakeholders further underscored cultural beliefs, attitudes, and contextual environmental factors as the key constraints to bridge the policy theory and practice of sports. Finally, findings emphasise the integral role stakeholders play in the life course of a policy. Further, the SDP does not primarily promote sports for health, but rather elite sports, on the premise that health benefits are automatically achieved through participation in sports activities. Thus, reinforcements are still needed to clearly define the national physical activity plan either through the SDP or other national physical activity guidelines.
{"title":"Stakeholder perspectives on promoting health enhancing sport through the Rwanda Sports Policy","authors":"L. Mukaruzima, Jimmy Duhamahoro, J. Frantz","doi":"10.1080/19406940.2023.2228835","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19406940.2023.2228835","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Sport is an adaptable channel for change. It has been widely used to enhance health and wellbeing, foster social cohesion, and engender peace and development in different societies. The government of Rwanda developed a Sports Development Policy (SDP) to advance sports within the spectrum of its development agendas. However, the extent to which health constructs are integrated and implemented within the tenets of this policy remain unexplored, despite their pivotal role in population wellbeing and in contributing to the country’s overarching development goals. This study sought to understand if and how the Rwanda SDP promotes sports for health from the stakeholders’ perspectives. In-depth semi structured interviews were used for thirteen purposively sampled stakeholders of the SDP. Thematic and narrative analysis were used to examine and report the findings. Themes highlighted a progressive awareness of the Sports Policy pertaining to health outcomes, less involvement of stakeholders in sport policy formulation which affected its implementation, disproportionate efforts between sports policies for health, competitive, and mass sports activities. Stakeholders further underscored cultural beliefs, attitudes, and contextual environmental factors as the key constraints to bridge the policy theory and practice of sports. Finally, findings emphasise the integral role stakeholders play in the life course of a policy. Further, the SDP does not primarily promote sports for health, but rather elite sports, on the premise that health benefits are automatically achieved through participation in sports activities. Thus, reinforcements are still needed to clearly define the national physical activity plan either through the SDP or other national physical activity guidelines.","PeriodicalId":47174,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47726478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-26DOI: 10.1080/19406940.2023.2228829
Erfan Moradi, Sajad Gholampour, Behzad Gholampour
ABSTRACT Understanding a discipline’s literature is essential to advance in that area. However, there has yet to be a study that summarises the current research on sport policy. Without a study of the topic, particularly one as extensive as the current one, where over 450 papers were evaluated, it is difficult for newcomers to the field and seasoned experts to have a firm grasp of all there is to know about it. Given this context, the current research is necessary and valuable because it is the first to provide insight into the effectiveness and intellectual framework of the sport policy literature selected by the International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics (IJSPP). This study used bibliometric techniques and indicators to analyse IJSPP publications from 2010 to 2022. The research data was collected from Scopus and analysed with bibliometrix and VOSviewer software. We found that the various components of the production (countries, institutions, and authors) in IJSPP work well in collaboration and over 82% of the research results from teamwork. The co-occurrence analysis of keywords comprises nine clusters, the co-citation analysis comprises four, and sport policy was the most significant cluster. Looking at niche topics in the future, sports diplomacy, social justice, elite sport policy, sport for development, and youth sport are just a few of the niche themes that have the potential to come up. This study will be helpful as a roadmap for researchers in different fields who are interested in such studies, as well as for editorial board members and those who work in sport policy and politics.
{"title":"Past, present and future of sport policy: a bibliometric analysis of International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics (2010–2022)","authors":"Erfan Moradi, Sajad Gholampour, Behzad Gholampour","doi":"10.1080/19406940.2023.2228829","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19406940.2023.2228829","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Understanding a discipline’s literature is essential to advance in that area. However, there has yet to be a study that summarises the current research on sport policy. Without a study of the topic, particularly one as extensive as the current one, where over 450 papers were evaluated, it is difficult for newcomers to the field and seasoned experts to have a firm grasp of all there is to know about it. Given this context, the current research is necessary and valuable because it is the first to provide insight into the effectiveness and intellectual framework of the sport policy literature selected by the International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics (IJSPP). This study used bibliometric techniques and indicators to analyse IJSPP publications from 2010 to 2022. The research data was collected from Scopus and analysed with bibliometrix and VOSviewer software. We found that the various components of the production (countries, institutions, and authors) in IJSPP work well in collaboration and over 82% of the research results from teamwork. The co-occurrence analysis of keywords comprises nine clusters, the co-citation analysis comprises four, and sport policy was the most significant cluster. Looking at niche topics in the future, sports diplomacy, social justice, elite sport policy, sport for development, and youth sport are just a few of the niche themes that have the potential to come up. This study will be helpful as a roadmap for researchers in different fields who are interested in such studies, as well as for editorial board members and those who work in sport policy and politics.","PeriodicalId":47174,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48223900","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-25DOI: 10.1080/19406940.2023.2228800
T. Duffell, David Haycock, Andy Smith
ABSTRACT Governments in many countries are increasingly interested in using community sport as a vehicle for improving public health through physical activity (PA) promotion. This has been associated with an increasing interdependence between the community sport and health policy sectors. However, there are no empirically grounded studies which have examined this directly and systematically in England. By examining Sport England’s Get Healthy, Get Active (GHGA) initiative, this paper presents novel evidence derived from interviews held with strategic policy-makers from Sport England and a professional football charity (Everton in the Community), and 67 men who engaged in one of the GHGA funded programmes, Active Blues. The findings reveal how the increasing interdependence between community sport and health policy has been characterised by tightly contested and congested relations of power at local and national levels. Although Sport England was the lead organisation which coordinated and was accountable for community sport, it was nevertheless highly dependent on organisations outside of the sector, including health organisations, to deliver their community sport goals. This was indicative of the relatively vulnerable and marginal position which Sport England, and sport policy, occupied in the policy landscape and the associated generalisation of interests from sport to public health. The policy spillover from more powerful policy sectors such as health, to comparatively less powerful ones like community sport, raises questions about the degree to which government can realistically expect to achieve their formal community sport and health policy goals.
{"title":"Exploring the increasing interdependence of community sport and health policy in England","authors":"T. Duffell, David Haycock, Andy Smith","doi":"10.1080/19406940.2023.2228800","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19406940.2023.2228800","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Governments in many countries are increasingly interested in using community sport as a vehicle for improving public health through physical activity (PA) promotion. This has been associated with an increasing interdependence between the community sport and health policy sectors. However, there are no empirically grounded studies which have examined this directly and systematically in England. By examining Sport England’s Get Healthy, Get Active (GHGA) initiative, this paper presents novel evidence derived from interviews held with strategic policy-makers from Sport England and a professional football charity (Everton in the Community), and 67 men who engaged in one of the GHGA funded programmes, Active Blues. The findings reveal how the increasing interdependence between community sport and health policy has been characterised by tightly contested and congested relations of power at local and national levels. Although Sport England was the lead organisation which coordinated and was accountable for community sport, it was nevertheless highly dependent on organisations outside of the sector, including health organisations, to deliver their community sport goals. This was indicative of the relatively vulnerable and marginal position which Sport England, and sport policy, occupied in the policy landscape and the associated generalisation of interests from sport to public health. The policy spillover from more powerful policy sectors such as health, to comparatively less powerful ones like community sport, raises questions about the degree to which government can realistically expect to achieve their formal community sport and health policy goals.","PeriodicalId":47174,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42961547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-22DOI: 10.1080/19406940.2023.2228812
Naif Albujulaya, C. Stevinson, J. Piggin
{"title":"Physical activity policy in Saudi Arabia: analysis of progress and challenges","authors":"Naif Albujulaya, C. Stevinson, J. Piggin","doi":"10.1080/19406940.2023.2228812","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19406940.2023.2228812","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47174,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43914741","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-22DOI: 10.1080/19406940.2023.2228816
Vittorio Travan, Chelsea Litchfield, Jaquelyn Osborne, Kelsey Richards
ABSTRACT Sports media regularly frames the issue of performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) through the ideals of morality, nationalism and expected behaviours. This has provided an emergent focus for research studies and extensive and enlightening coverage. This study aims to identify how the Australian media frames PEDs across a diverse range of media sources through the selection of five print and online media publications. Using nationalism bias and media framing, the study researched the prevailing positions, language and framing each publication used to report on individuals associated with, linked to or found to be using, PEDs. The prevalent, ‘nationalism-based’ reporting emerged, glorifying anti-doping procedures in relation to international athletes and sporting programmes. In comparison, the guilt and severity of punishments given to Australian athletes was questioned. Thus, the reporting presents both a political and biased narrative that is explored further within this manuscript.
{"title":"Framing the space of performance enhancing drug use in sport: Nationalism bias in the Australian Media","authors":"Vittorio Travan, Chelsea Litchfield, Jaquelyn Osborne, Kelsey Richards","doi":"10.1080/19406940.2023.2228816","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19406940.2023.2228816","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Sports media regularly frames the issue of performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) through the ideals of morality, nationalism and expected behaviours. This has provided an emergent focus for research studies and extensive and enlightening coverage. This study aims to identify how the Australian media frames PEDs across a diverse range of media sources through the selection of five print and online media publications. Using nationalism bias and media framing, the study researched the prevailing positions, language and framing each publication used to report on individuals associated with, linked to or found to be using, PEDs. The prevalent, ‘nationalism-based’ reporting emerged, glorifying anti-doping procedures in relation to international athletes and sporting programmes. In comparison, the guilt and severity of punishments given to Australian athletes was questioned. Thus, the reporting presents both a political and biased narrative that is explored further within this manuscript.","PeriodicalId":47174,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42070230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-14DOI: 10.1080/19406940.2023.2224345
S. Harris, Mathew Dowling, Marvin Washington
ABSTRACT Over the past two decades, there has been increasing academic interest in examining the governance of international and Olympic sport (IOS). Common governance approaches applied to sport include federal/unitary governance, systemic governance, collaborative governance, stakeholder governance, and network governance. Despite its attention to system-level governance including multiple decision centres with overlapping jurisdictions, polycentric governance has yet to be applied to sport. This paper examines the IOC’s Rule 50 as an empirical case to evaluate the potential of the theory, and more specifically, to analyse how the multiple governing authorities in IOS create and maintain regulatory control. In considering the conceptual characteristics of polycentric governance, the paper finds that it has value in illuminating several key features of IOS and has the potential to add conceptual rigour to the study of a number of different sport systems. The paper finishes with ideas for future research where polycentric governance could be used to garner further insights in IOS and other sport sectors.
{"title":"Political protest and Rule 50: exploring the polycentric governance of international and Olympic sport","authors":"S. Harris, Mathew Dowling, Marvin Washington","doi":"10.1080/19406940.2023.2224345","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19406940.2023.2224345","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Over the past two decades, there has been increasing academic interest in examining the governance of international and Olympic sport (IOS). Common governance approaches applied to sport include federal/unitary governance, systemic governance, collaborative governance, stakeholder governance, and network governance. Despite its attention to system-level governance including multiple decision centres with overlapping jurisdictions, polycentric governance has yet to be applied to sport. This paper examines the IOC’s Rule 50 as an empirical case to evaluate the potential of the theory, and more specifically, to analyse how the multiple governing authorities in IOS create and maintain regulatory control. In considering the conceptual characteristics of polycentric governance, the paper finds that it has value in illuminating several key features of IOS and has the potential to add conceptual rigour to the study of a number of different sport systems. The paper finishes with ideas for future research where polycentric governance could be used to garner further insights in IOS and other sport sectors.","PeriodicalId":47174,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics","volume":"15 1","pages":"417 - 434"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49426449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-12DOI: 10.1080/19406940.2023.2219272
Hafsa Ali, Richard Wright, G. Dickson
ABSTRACT This paper critically examines Pakistan’s sports policy, from the design, development and delivery phases through to its public evaluation. In doing so, we identify and address the emerging trends and associated challenges facing sports organisations in a large politically unstable developing nation. Ten interviews and an analysis of over 15 policy documents, including annual reports, were conducted over the three-year period 2019–2021. This critical case study documents the sport-politics nexus in Pakistan, including the ongoing impact of the 2011 18th constitutional amendment on sport. The key conclusions from this study are that the development and delivery of sport policy, at both a domestic and international level, was negatively affected by administrative inefficiencies in organisational structures and the devolution of the Pakistan Sports Board. A lack of public and private sector investment and an unjust distribution of funds were also found to have hindered the nation’s ability to use sport as a vehicle for socio-economic development and soft power projection. In sum, Pakistan’s sports policy and underlying structures fall short of modern international sports requirements, and reform is strongly recommended.
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