Resisting self-regulation: an analysis of sport policy programme making and implementation in Sweden

Fahlén, Josef; Eliasson, Inger; Wickman, Kim

doi:10.1080/19406940.2014.925954

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“…As such, the support is subject to accountability, and evidence -in terms of numbers -is the way of keeping score. In that way, the recipient is made responsible for the appropriate use of resources; monitoring, in terms of key performance indicators, is the means for making sure that responsibility is shouldered (Fahlén, Wickman and Eliasson 2014). Thus, evidence on the efficient use of taxpayers' money is a key feature in the current governing mode.…”

Section: Current Sport Policy Priorities and Debatesmentioning

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“…This priority is connected to the legitimacy of government funding, which rests, on the one hand, on the assumption of sport's societal effect in terms of public health and civic engagement, and, on the other hand, on organised sport's ability to make its activities available to large parts of the population (Fahlén et al 2014). In other words, the government needs to make mass participation a priority in order to defend the allocation of tax funds to a nongovernmental body.…”

Section: Current Sport Policy Priorities and Debatesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Sport policy in Sweden

Fahlén

Stenling

2015

International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics

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Contemporary sport policy in Sweden is the result of a century-long relationship between national and local governments and voluntary, non-profit and membershipbased club sport which has resulted in extensive financial support to organised sport. The relationship is defined by an 'implicit contract' in which the government decides on the extent and the purpose of the funding, and the recipient, the Swedish Sports Confederation, determines the details of the distribution and administration. These funds are distributed to 20,164 sport clubs and their 3,147,000 members in exchange for the realisation of social policies on public health and the fostering of democratic citizens. While an important cornerstone of the relationship has been the autonomy and self-determination of the recipient of the funds in their capacities as civil society organisations, recent decades have witnessed an increase in demands on performance outputs. These demands have explicated a wider social responsibility for organised sport and entailed a system for follow-up and control of the results of the government support via key performance indicators. In these ways, the corporatist agreement and consensus traditionally characterising the public-civil society interaction has been accompanied by governing mechanisms associated with neo-liberal ideologies which in turn are putting the sustainability of the implicit contract to the test.

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Sport policy in Sweden

Fahlén

Stenling

2015

International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics

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“…In the example building in Stenling and Sam (2017), the SSC sought legitimacy during the problem definition and agenda setting phase. From Fahlén et al (2015), for example, we know that the SSC simultaneously seeks legitimacy in the policy evaluation phase. Similarly, our illustrations on the policy formulation (Strittmatter 2016) and policy implementation (Waldahl and Skille 2016) phases together show how the same organisation (NIF) seeks legitimacy in different phases.…”

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“…Therefore, NIF or the SSC (as monopolistic umbrella sport organisations) typically have numerous and heterogeneous sets of sources compared to small self-funded single-sport clubs. Umbrella organisations value the approval of the same sources (e.g., the government) more than the sport clubs do (Fahlén et al 2015). In that sense, how much and what is at stake in legitimacy dynamics will vary among organisations in the same system and across policy issues.…”

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

Strittmatter

Stenling

Fahlén

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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 acts. Based on recent suggestions in organisation theory literature on how to approach legitimacy and legitimation, we applied the framework on a small sample of published sport policy studies to demonstrate its utility. By applying the framework, six interweaved and interweaving elements of the legitimating act within sport policy processes were identified: legitimacy-seeking organisation, subject, source(s), strategy, bases and scenario. The analysis shows that each of the six elements works by intersecting within each phase of the policy process. The main conclusion is that consequencesoften unintendedresulting from legitimating acts in one phase have legitimacy-related implications for the other phases of the policy process. As pressing as pinpointing the use of all elements of the framework is, it is equally important to distinguish each of the elements in order to fulfil the analytical potential of the proposed framework. Since sport policy processes in practice rely primarily on organisations and organisational action, future sport policy research would benefit from this type of framework connecting organisations and organising to policy processes.

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“…Green and Houlihan (2006) state that government interference in sports has shown a 'profound shift in the pattern of accountability away from traditional stakeholders and toward government and its agencies and commercial sponsors' (p. 66). Fahlén et al (2015) also problematise the loss of autonomy of sport organisations. They argue that sport selfregulation is at stake because sport organisations are too focused on achieving policy goals, internal organisation and conforming to governmental standards and norms.…”

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Regulating full contact martial arts and combat sports: how governmentality as an analytical framework informs practices of the governing of sports

Dortants

2018

International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics

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The governing of sport has recently shifted from self-regulation towards various forms of joint regulation. This study uses the concept of governmentality to analyse practices of governing full contact martial arts and combat sports (FCMACS) in the Netherlands to answer the question of how the concept of governmentality informs the current and future governing of FCMACS. Dean's methodological guidelines were used in the analysis of the consensus and contradictions in the rationalities and related technologies of power (regimes of practices) expressed in the regulation of FCMACS. According to the study's respondents, future practices of the governing of FCMACS must enact equitable restrictions for all gyms and fight events and highlight the social value of FCMACS to facilitate them gaining the same status as regular sports. Such change requires practices of governing that combine authority and mediation with a climate open to self-regulation. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Resisting self-regulation: an analysis of sport policy programme making and implementation in Sweden

Cited by 68 publications

References 33 publications

Sport policy in Sweden

Sport policy in Sweden

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

Regulating full contact martial arts and combat sports: how governmentality as an analytical framework informs practices of the governing of sports

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