Blar i Brage NIH på tidsskrift "International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics"

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    • Challenges to globalisation and the impact on the values underpinning international sport agreements 

      Houlihan, Barrie (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Accompanying the spread of sports as a global business and a political/diplomatic resource have been attempts to underpin the organisation and practice of sports with a set of Kantian values that maintain its economic/cultural ...

    • Country profile of Ghana: Sport, politics and nation-building 

      Charway, Derrick Okpoti; Houlihan, Barrie (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      The profile gives an overview of the changing trends of sport policies adopted in Ghana and highlights how past political upheavals made it difficult to have stable sport development strategies. Currently, the emergence ...

    • Elite sport in scandinavian welfare states: legitimacy under pressure? 

      Ronglan, Lars Tore (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-12-11)
      Taking part in the global ‘sports arming race’ is demanding to all small nations, in terms of the efforts needed to succeed at the international stage. The Scandinavian countries are wealthy and could afford (in pure ...

    • From political sports to sports politics: on political mobilization of sports issues 

      Seippel, Ørnulf; Dalen, Håvard Bergesen; Sandvik, Morten Renslo; Solstad, Gerd Marie (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      How and why do sports issues turn into politics? The aim of this paper is to explore how politicization of sports might happen, to show how social movement theory might contribute to such understandings and to contribute ...

    • Political framing of sports: the mediated politicisation of Oslo’s interest in bidding for the 2022 Winter Olympics 

      Seippel, Ørnulf; Broch, Trygve B.; Kristiansen, Elsa; Skille, Eivind Å.; Wilhelmsen, Terese; Strandbu, Åse; Thorjussen, Ingfrid M. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016-05-14)
      Sport is a malleable phenomenon: it is not obvious what might be contentious about sports and how sports eventually turn into political questions. For years, there had been discussions on whether the city of Oslo should ...

    • Public opinion in Japan and the UK on issues of fairness and integrity in sport: implications for anti-doping policy 

      Houlihan, Barrie; Downward, Paul; Yamamoto, Mayumi Yaya; Rasciute, Simona; Takasu, Kumiko (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      The continuing challenge of achieving compliance with the World Anti-Doping Code had led WADA to place an increasing emphasis on strengthening anti-doping values. Education was given a much higher and clearer profile in ...

    • Small states: sport and politics at the margin 

      Houlihan, Barrie; Zheng, Jinming (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-10-15)
      The aims of this article are the identification of the objectives of small states for participation in international sport and investing in elite sport and the analysis of the strategies that small states adopt to maximize ...

    • The ‘spirit of sport’, WADAs code review, and the search for an overlapping consensus 

      Loland, Sigmund; McNamee, Michael John (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      In this paper, we argue for the recognition that anti-doping is in itselffirst andforemost an ethical position. The current World Anti-doping Code formula-tion of‘the spirit of sport’is an acknowledgement of this point ...

    • Sport clubs, policy networks, and local politics 

      Seippel, Ørnulf; Belbo, Johanna Sveen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Sports clubs cooperate with other clubs, sports organisations, and public and market actors to organise sports. In this article, we study the way clubs cooperate through a sports club network involving only sports clubs ...

    • Sport policy analysis revisited: the sport policy process as an interlinked chain of legitimating acts 

      Strittmatter, Anna-Maria; Stenling, Cecilia; Fahlen, Josef; Skille, Eivind Å. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      By providing an analytical framework that draws on a conceptualisation of legitimacy in organisation studies, this paper demonstrates that the sport policy process can be understood as an interlinked chain of legitimating ...

    • Surveillance and control in sport: a sociologist looks at the WADA whereabouts system 

      Waddington, Ivan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010-11)
      This paper draws upon the sociology of Norbert Elias to examine some central aspects of the whereabouts system introduced by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) as part of its anti-doping policies. More specifically, the ...

    • WADA at twenty: old problems and old thinking? 

      Waddington, Ivan; Møller, Verner (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      The decision taken at Lausanne in 1999 to establish WADA representeda new start in anti-doping: a new organization under new leadershipwith new sources of funding, new headquarters and a new and wideranti-doping remit. The ...