The Central Role of the State in the Governance of Sport and the Olympic Movement in Tunisia, from 1956 to the Present Day

Zaoui, Maha; Bayle, Emmanuel

doi:10.1080/09523367.2018.1463992

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“…At present, there is only a small number of countries remain pure communist or non-democratic. In other words, the methodology used by Johnson and Ali (2004) may not be suitable for today’s world (see also Zaoui and Bayle, 2017). Therefore, instead of using the political regime, we employ the democracy index ( Democracy ) compiled by the Economist Intelligence Unit of the United Kingdom to categorize the type of political regime for each country.…”

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Who wins the paralympic medals? An analysis of the socio-economic determinants

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2022

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PurposeWhile the Olympic Games are always under the spotlight, the Paralympic Games are somehow ignored. This paper aims to invite the general public to think about the para-athletes and the differential treatments they received.Design/methodology/approachAmong the participating countries, many of them were unable to win a single Olympic or Paralympic medal. When the dependent variable is left-censored, ordinary least squares regression is asymptotically biased downwards. In the literature, researchers typically employ the maximum likelihood Tobit model to take care of the censoring problem. However, some researchers argue that the Hurdle model has an advantage over the Tobit model in identifying the determinants of winning Olympic medals. Following their wisdom, this paper employs both the Tobit and Hurdle models in analysis.FindingsThe empirical evidence gathered in this paper suggests that population size, host status and average years of schooling are the big three socio-economic determinants when it comes to winning medals at the Paralympic Games and Olympic Games. The findings support the hypothesis that sports talent is randomly distributed and a large country has a higher chance to have talented athletes or para-athletes winning the Olympic medals. The strong host advantage also showed up in the following Paralympics but was not so strong at the next Olympics.Originality/valueThis paper not only examines the relationship between various social, economic and political factors in determining the success of a nation in the Paralympic Games but also attempts to identify possible non-traditional determinants.

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