Pub Date : 2023-06-07DOI: 10.1080/19406940.2023.2219268
Pascal Mamudou Camara
ABSTRACT The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of the sport policy landscape in the Gambia. The formation of the National Sport Council (NSC) 27 years after the Gambia National Olympic Committee (GNOC) was formed meant a significant shift of power and responsibility to the government agency. Using government documents, newspaper articles and radio outputs, this article presents the sport landscape of the Gambia in three main ways: (1) highlights the power play between the NSC and the GNOC in the quest to insert authority; (2) the role of civil society in the local sport landscape and (3) demonstrates how international sport organisations disrupts policy priorities in developing countries. This article demonstrates that powerful individuals in unitary systems of government do significantly change the course of sport policy priorities. In addition, the large dependence on state resources to build sport infrastructure and implement events renders the ambitious policy documents insolent in a poor country like the Gambia. Though some of the government institutions share similar aims in their policy documents these are hardly put into practice in reality and sometimes lead o duplication of responsibilities.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-30DOI: 10.1080/19406940.2023.2218850
Rei Yamashita, Waku Ogiso
ABSTRACTOrganising sporting events is no longer just a matter of interest to event operators. In Japan, various local governments actively attract non-mega-sporting events as part of their urban development policies. However, these policy formulations must be evidence-based, especially in understanding the impact of sporting events and residents’ relationship to sporting events. Most social impact studies in sport management research have predominantly used the cross-sectional approach; hence, it is necessary to conduct a longitudinal research design to understand variations in residents’ long-term perceptions. Adapting prospect theory as the theoretical background, this study aims to investigate the change difference in social impacts and residents’ attitudes using a longitudinal panel data approach. The authors revealed that residents’ perceptions towards social impact would change before and after the event. Additionally, multiple factors were associated with differences in the dependent variables. This study provided a detailed understanding of residents’ changing perceptions and attitudes towards the event, which will also demonstrate to residents the scientific rationale for hosting the event. In the midst of the need for sustainable sporting event management, a more detailed analysis of the impact-driven on the community from hosting the event will affect changes in trust towards the government and acceptance of local policies is a perspective that is required for future research on social impact.KEYWORDS: social impactacceptancesupport intentiontrustlongitudinal panel data Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.Additional informationFundingThe work was supported by the Kasama-shi Sport Commission.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-27DOI: 10.1080/19406940.2023.2215809
Jack Thomas Sugden, Stephen Sheps, J. Sugden
ABSTRACT Over the past half-century global sport governance has, in the face of hyper-commercialisation and globalisation, been found wanting. Key institutions have lurched between scandal and outright failure to address their remit and duty to employees, fans and, perhaps most importantly, participants the world over. Critical sport scholars have investigated and demanded better, yet by and large, these demands have not been met, in part, as we argue, because there has been no solution proffered, beyond principled frameworks. In the spirit of critical proactivism, and drawing from international relations praxis and Critical Theory, the following paper seeks to catalyse discussion around a potential solution. We seek to promote and further elucidate the philosophy of and justification for the establishment of an overarching, morally sustainable, and democratically accountable regulatory and enforcement apparatus for sports’ global governance: namely the ‘International Council for Sports Governance’ (ICSG) as a much-needed credibility inoculation for global sport.
{"title":"Assessing governance without government: A proposal for the International Council of Sport Governance","authors":"Jack Thomas Sugden, Stephen Sheps, J. Sugden","doi":"10.1080/19406940.2023.2215809","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19406940.2023.2215809","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Over the past half-century global sport governance has, in the face of hyper-commercialisation and globalisation, been found wanting. Key institutions have lurched between scandal and outright failure to address their remit and duty to employees, fans and, perhaps most importantly, participants the world over. Critical sport scholars have investigated and demanded better, yet by and large, these demands have not been met, in part, as we argue, because there has been no solution proffered, beyond principled frameworks. In the spirit of critical proactivism, and drawing from international relations praxis and Critical Theory, the following paper seeks to catalyse discussion around a potential solution. We seek to promote and further elucidate the philosophy of and justification for the establishment of an overarching, morally sustainable, and democratically accountable regulatory and enforcement apparatus for sports’ global governance: namely the ‘International Council for Sports Governance’ (ICSG) as a much-needed credibility inoculation for global sport.","PeriodicalId":47174,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics","volume":"15 1","pages":"473 - 491"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45387461","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 : 2023-05-25DOI: 10.1080/19406940.2023.2215788
Lara Lesch, Shannon Kerwin, P. Wicker
ABSTRACT Drawing on hegemonic masculinity and critical mass theory, this study investigates the representation of women board members in sport governing bodies (SGB) and the extent to which boards can be assigned to subgroups based on the number and share of women board members. The study examines the organisational characteristics of SGBs with low, medium, and high representation of women on the board. Data were gathered from the websites of German national and state sport associations and federations (n = 930), including information about the size and gender composition of the board and several organisational characteristics (e.g. type of sport, headquarter location, membership figures). On average, SGBs have 1.8 women on the board reflecting a share of 20.1%. Three groups of SGBs emerged from the cluster analysis: Organisations with low (0.08 women; share of women: 0.3%), medium (1.63; 18.4%), and high representation of women (3.87; 42.6%) on the board. These clusters differ significantly regarding organisational characteristics. Specifically, SGBs with low representation of women have on average smaller boards and represent non-Olympic sports or ‘typically masculine’ sports. Sport federations are more frequently represented in the clusters with medium and high representation of women on the board. SGBs in the third cluster represent ‘typically feminine’ sports like dancing or equestrian and have the most women and youth memberships. The findings help sport policy makers target respective groups of organisations with interventions to implement gender policies and explain the important role of such policies for attracting new women board members or gaining legitimacy from public institutions.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-07DOI: 10.1080/19406940.2023.2196992
A. Pankowiak, C. Brockett, Veerle De Bosscher, H. Westerbeek
ABSTRACT The Paralympics Games are increasing in competitiveness as more countries seek top medal outcomes. In response, governments are focusing on the development and implementation of effective national sport policies/systems to optimise Paralympic success. However, little is known about national sport policy influencing a country’s Paralympic success. Indeed, the literature on national elite sport policy has focused on Olympic sport and emerging Paralympic sport studies are limited to a country/sport. The aim of this research was to identify key national Paralympic sport policy interventions influencing a country’s Paralympic medal outcomes. This exploratory qualitative study was informed by a realist perspective, and by the social relational and human rights models of disability. Twenty-three semi-structured interviews were conducted with national Paralympic sport managers from the United Kingdom, Australia, France and Canada, and the data was analysed using qualitative descriptive analysis. Findings confirm that existing national Olympic sport policies are also important for Paralympic success, however, within these policies, parasport-specific processes were identified, and two policy interventions unique to Paralympic sports were found: integration of disability-specific and Paralympic sport knowledge in the sporting system, and a national framework for Paralympic athlete classification. This study advances knowledge on national Paralympic sport policies and suggests that researchers, evaluators, and practitioners need to account for Paralympic-specific policies and processes. Tailoring policies to the specificities of the Paralympic domain may provide competitive advantage in the Paralympic Games. This study argues for further research to understand how the identified policy interventions may be influenced by the country’s context.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-27DOI: 10.1080/19406940.2023.2206402
Aaron Ettinger
ABSTRACT Since 2016, Saudi Arabia’s crown prince Mohammed bin Salman has sought to improve his country’s economic and strategic position through sports diplomacy. These efforts include investments in a diverse portfolio of sports properties, including hosting marquee professional sporting events at home and financing leagues and teams abroad. It is all part of Saudi Arabia’s ‘Vision 2030’ strategic plan to diversify the Kingdom’s economy. This paper discusses the foreign and domestic policy purposes underlying Saudi Arabia’s sports diplomacy and their wider implications for the global economy. I argue that the sports diplomacy initiated by MBS is an investment both in the long-term strategic interests of Saudi Arabia and in the longevity of the ruling regime. Soft power accumulation, as would be predicted by the sports mega-events literature, is a secondary consideration. This paper unfolds in three parts, First, I discuss the relationship between sportswashing, sports diplomacy, and soft power. Second, I provide an overview of Saudi Arabia’s sports engagements since 2014. Third, I explain Saudi Arabia’s behaviour relative to the literature on sports diplomacy. Fourth, I explain Saudi Arabia’s sports diplomacy with reference to the goals laid out in its Vision 2030 policy. I conclude with a discussion of the wider implications of Saudi Arabia’s sports diplomacy.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-11DOI: 10.1080/19406940.2023.2199021
Joshua Llewellyn, Kyle A. Rich
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Pub Date : 2023-04-11DOI: 10.1080/19406940.2023.2201300
Louis Moustakas, Karen Petry
ABSTRACT Violence and maltreatment in sport threaten athlete rights and undermine sport’s potential contribution to positive social development. This problem remains prevalent in organised sport and limits sport’s potential social contribution. In response, numerous European and international actors have pursued activities to address this serious issue. In particular, for more than two decades, the Council of Europe (CoE) has played an active role in promoting and supporting safeguarding policy in sport. However, though extensive time and resources have been invested in these actions, their extent and impact remain unclear. Therefore, using the Council of Europe’s Start to Talk initiative as a case, we aim to analyse the inputs, activities, and policy outcomes of their work around safeguarding policy in sport. In turn, this will allow us to identify successes, challenges and future directions for European policy activities. We rely on document analysis and more than 20 semi-structured qualitative interviews with national and international experts to generate our results. Based on this, we find that the CoE has helped politically legitimise action on this topic and has helped generate engagement with policymakers and the public. However, a broader lack of policy monitoring, especially at the systems and target population levels, restricts further progress and development.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/19406940.2023.2205868
E. Bayle
ABSTRACT This article presents a framework for the regulation of international sport. It is based on an analysis of each sport’s global ecosystem, conducted to identify the actors involved, as well as their respective weights, objectives (for-profit/non-profit), relationships, and roles. The underlying thesis is that actors within or outside the ecosystem activate four areas of regulation (social, economic, legal, political) and mobilise appropriate competencies to create, strengthen, or destabilise specific regulation modes or configurations. Applying this analysis framework revealed five configurations of sport regulation: regulation by a dominant IF; regulation coordinated by an IF; parallel regulation; commercial regulation supplanting an IF; commercial regulation with no IF. These categories explain the relative power of the actors involved and the way they use their social, economic, legal, and political regulation competencies, which depend on their circumstances, to further their interests.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1080/19406940.2023.2206410
Carlos Eugênio Zardini Filho, Millicent Kennelly, S. Fullagar, G. Cuskelly
ABSTRACT This research explores the perceptions of managers of national parasport organisations in Brazil regarding administrative legacies created through the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. It contributes to furthering knowledge about how the Paralympic Games influenced enduring changes in administrative processes related to the implementation of elite parasport programs in national parasport organisations, which were conceptualised in this article as administrative legacies. The effect of such changes on the professionalisation of parasport organisations was also explored in this research. This qualitative study drew on semi-structured interviews with twenty-six managers from five national parasport organisations in Brazil. A thematic analysis was used to identify what managers of parasport organisations considered to be administrative legacies attributed to the Paralympic Games cycle in Brazil. The perceived legacies included changes in the administrative processes of parasport organisations such as new or modified process designs and controlling and monitoring tasks. Further, increased professionalisation was perceived as enhancing the organisational capacity of investigated organisations. However, managers described problematic administrative changes, for instance, that increased internal bureaucracy has negatively affected the efficiency of certain administrative process. Despite some problematic effects, parasport managers perceived the Paralympic Games in Brazil as improving the capacity of their organisations to better implement elite parasport programs. This research advances knowledge about how administrative legacies were produced through the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games. The research also extends the limited evidence base concerning how the Games catalyse the professionalisation of administrative practices in parasport organisations, thereby improving their organisational capacity.
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