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Achieving compliance in international anti-doping policy: An analysis of the 2009 World Anti-Doping Code
Houlihan, Barrie (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013-12-08)Despite the rapid acceptance by sports organisations of the World Anti-Doping Code and ratification by governments of the UNESCO Convention Against Doping in Sport there remains a concern that formal implementation disguises ... -
Balancing mission creep, means, effectiveness and legitimacy at the World Anti-Doping Agency
Read, Daniel; Skinner, James; Lock, Daniel; Houlihan, Barrie (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Established in 1999, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) was an ambitious project to harmonise anti-doping regulations globally. Since its creation, WADA has engaged in additional activities such as investigating doping ... -
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 ... -
Chinese Olympic sport policy: Managing the impact of globalisation
Tan, Tien-Chin; Houlihan, Barrie (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012-06-07)The article examines the extent to which, and the manner in which, the Chinese government managed its relationship with the Olympic movement following its re-engagement with international elite sport competition in the mid ... -
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 ... -
Delivery networks and community sport in England
Harris, Spencer; Houlihan, Barrie (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)Purpose – The paper aims to utilise Adam and Kriesi's network approach to policy analysis to examine the range of exogenous factors that affect interactions in the community sport policy process from a local authority ... -
Developing young athletes: the role of private sport schools in the Norwegian sport system
Kristiansen, Elsa; Houlihan, Barrie (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-09-30)The aim of the paper is to analyse the increasingly prominent role of private sports schools in the development of elite athletes in Norway. The context for the analysis is the apparent paradox between the emergence of a ... -
Field-configuring events as temporary sites for institutional change in sport: a case study of the Lausanne conference on anti-doping
Read, Daniel; Skinner, James; Lock, Daniel; Houlihan, Barrie (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Research question: Institutional work by actors (e.g. organisations or individuals) to create, maintain or disrupt institutions requires redefining what is considered legitimate behaviour. Furthermore, research indicates ... -
The new hope of Chinese football?: Youth football reforms and policy conflicts in the implementation process
Peng, Qi; Chen, Zhisheng; Li, Juan; Houlihan, Barrie; Scelles, Nicolas (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Research question: This research focuses on the implementation of youth football policies in China following the 2015 national football reform. It asks the question ‘To what extent have contextual and organisational factors ... -
“Policy Analysis in Sport Management” Revisited: A Critique and Discussion
Jedlicka, Scott R.; Harris, Spencer; Houlihan, Barrie (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Published in the Journal of Sport Management in 1995, Laurence Chalip’s “Policy Analysis in Sport Management” persuasively argued that effective sport managers should equip themselves with a particular set of critical ... -
Politics and the London 2012 Olympics: the (in)security Games
Houlihan, Barrie; Giulianotti, Richard (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012-07-25)This article traces the emergence of security at the Olympic Games as a key concern of host governments and of the Olympic movement and analyses the implications of this heightened concern for the delivery of the Games, ... -
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 Olympics and elite sport policy: where will it all end?
Houlihan, Barrie; Zheng, Jinming (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013-03-01)The aim of the paper is to explore the consequences of the intensification of competition among the most successful countries at the Olympic Games – the sports powers – for participating countries, potential host countries ...