• 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...
    • 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 ...