The Institutional Dimension of the Sport Economy in Transition Countries

Andreff, Wladimir; Poupaux, Sandrine

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“…In this context, notwithstanding the increasing number of studies on sport policy, little attention has been paid to local and regional policies. Moreover, there has been a lack of English-language studies focusing on the area of Central and Eastern Europe and the particularities produced by the transition period, of which the decentralisation of sport governance is symptomatic (Poupaux and Andreff 2007). The objective of this study is to contribute towards filling this gap.…”

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The institutionalisation of regional public sport policy in the Czech Republic

Numerato

2009

International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics

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This paper deals with the emerging processes of creation and implementation of regional public policies on sport in the Czech Republic since 2001. It analyses the dynamics between the sport voluntary sector and the public administration. The paper captures the major tenets of the regional public policy for sport and explores the barriers undermining its effective functioning. It is argued that the Czech regional public sport policies are limited by two types of constraints; structural and cognitive. Whereas the structural constraints are defined in terms of politicisation, bureaucratisation, lack of evidence in the policy-making process and lack of interaction, the cognitive constraints are related to the lack of knowledge, the lack of information, the low recognition of sport in the context of other policy issues and the negative public image of public administration. Furthermore, a typology of different styles of support for sport and a typology of different strategies employed by sport associations and clubs to obtain funding are identified. The paper, thus, presents five ideal-types of the regional public support of sport: progressive, bureaucratic, political-clientelist, delegated, and marginalised. Moreover, four different strategies adopted by the sport movement are defined: the adaptation strategy; the pragmatic strategy; the strategy of the marginalised; and the strategy of resignation. The study is based on a qualitative methodology, using a combination of techniques such as semistructured interviews with public administration officers and representatives of the Czech sport movement, secondary analysis of documents and observations. Este estudio trata sobre los procesos de la creación y la implementación de la política del deporte público regional en la república checa desde el 2001. Analiza las dinámicas entre el deporte en el sector del voluntariado y en el del sector de la administración pública. El estudio capta las opiniones principales de la política de deporte público regional y explora las barreras que impiden su capacidad para funcionar efectivamente. Se dice que la política de deportes públicos regionales checa está limitada por dos tipos de restricciones; estructurales y cognitivas. Las restricciones estructurales se definen en términos de la politización, la burocratización, la falta de evidencia en el proceso de la elaboración de las políticas y la falta de interacción, mientras que las restricciones cognitivas están relacionadas con una falta de conocimiento e información junto con un reconocimiento mínimo sobre el deporte en el contexto político y de la imagen negativa que el público tiene de la administración pública. Además, se identifica una tipología de distintos estilos de apoyo hacia el deporte y otra para diferentes estrategias adoptadas por asociaciones y equipos de deporte para conseguir financiación. El estudio presenta 5 tipos ideales *Email: dino.numerato@unibocconi.it Downloaded by [University of Montana] at 16:50 14 December 2014 14 D. Numeratode apoyo público regional para ...

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The institutionalisation of regional public sport policy in the Czech Republic

Numerato

2009

International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics

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“…Economic and political transition and the break-up of the former Soviet Union have interrupted the series of high Olympic achievements by the Russian team (Poupaux and Andreff, 2007). With the transformational economic recession (Kornaï, 1994) the former Soviet sport system fell apiece (Andreff et al, 2012).…”

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“…The first emendation to Bernard and Busse model regards the political regime variable: Bernard and Busse rather crudely divided the world into communist regimes and capitalist market economies which obviously fits with the cold war period. Since then, this is too crude when it comes to so-called post-communist transition economies (Andreff, 2004(Andreff, , 2007 in particular as regard the sports economy sector which has differentiated a lot across former socialist countries during their institutional transformation (Poupaux and Andreff, 2007). Such differentiation has translated into a scattered efficiency in winning Olympic medals after 1991 (Rathke and Woitek, 2008).…”

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Economic development as major determinant of Olympic medal wins: predicting performances of Russian and Chinese teams at Sochi Games

Andreff¹

2013

IJEPEE

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Abstract:Starting from an econometric model successfully used to explain and then predict the distribution of medal wins across nations at the Beijing Summer Olympics, a similar model is elaborated on with some different explanatory variables for estimating the determinants of medals won per nation at Winter Games. A Tobit estimation of the model based on data from 1964 to 2010 shows that GDP per capita, population, the endowment in ski and winter sports resorts, and a host country dummy are significant determinants of medal wins at Winter Olympics. Then the estimated model is used for predicting the sporting outcomes at the 2014 Sochi Games with a focus on Russia and China. The Russian team is expected to perform better than in Vancouver 2010 and to be ranked fourth behind the USA, Germany and Canada while the Chinese team would be ranked ninth, a performance doomed to improve in the future given China's swift economic development.

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“…However, despite developing to a more liberal market orientation in the private economy, the sports system is more resistant to institutional change (Poupaux & Andreff, 2007). Applying a top-down approach, the MSiT still controls sports organisations and is responsible for elite sports funding (Zysko, 2008).…”

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A cross-cultural comparison of dual career environments for elite athletes in Switzerland, Denmark, and Poland

Küettel

Christensen

Żyśko

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International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology

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The purpose of this qualitative study is (a) to explore and compare the beliefs and values of the stakeholders working in different national dual career environments, and (b) to enhance the understanding of the relationship between athletes' dual career trajectories and the respective environments. Twelve semi-structured interviews with key informants involved in dual career from Switzerland, Denmark and Poland were used to discussing benefits, obstacles and best practices of their national dual career settings. Interviews were content analysed in a deductiveinductive way using Schein's (2010) cultural framework. Besides the differences in support for elite athletes in higher education across the national contexts, the key informants expressed divergent values and attitudes, which were due to their opinions on how dual careers should be organised. These values were found to be linked to the ideologies of the welfare regimes in the given country. Since dual career practices and programmes are based on different underlying basic assumptions in the three contexts studied, divergent dual career trajectories are proposed to athletes as the typical way to combine elite sport and education. Based on the results of our cross-cultural comparison, we assert that culture is not only an influential but also a constituting factor in the development of dual career environments. Thus, we propose a culturally sensitive approach towards the dual career of athletes and invite professionals (e.g., coaches, career advisors and educational programme leaders) to critically reflect on their contextualised values about how to support dual career athletes.

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The Institutional Dimension of the Sport Economy in Transition Countries

Cited by 9 publications

References 6 publications

The institutionalisation of regional public sport policy in the Czech Republic

The institutionalisation of regional public sport policy in the Czech Republic

Economic development as major determinant of Olympic medal wins: predicting performances of Russian and Chinese teams at Sochi Games

A cross-cultural comparison of dual career environments for elite athletes in Switzerland, Denmark, and Poland

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