Voluntary organized sport in Denmark and Norway

Ibsen, Bjarne; Seippel, Ørnulf

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“…Due to the importance of voluntarism and the local club network a strong centralized structure is absent and the sport movement is characterized by a high degree of autonomy and self-regulation (Bergsgard and Norberg, 2010). The main sources of income for local clubs are membership fees and club fund-raising with public sector funding accounting for between a third and a quarter of total income (Ibsen and Seippel, 2010).…”

Section: The Norwegian Elite Sport Contextmentioning

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Developing young athletes: The role of private sport schools in the Norwegian sport system

Kristiansen

Houlihan

2015

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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Dette er siste tekst-versjon av artikkelen, og den kan inneholde små forskjeller fra forlagets pdf-versjon. Forlagets pdf-versjon finner du på www.humankinetics.com: http://dx.doi. org/10.1177/1012690215607082 This is the final text version of the article, and it may contain minor differences from the journal's pdf version. The original publication is available at www.humankinetics.com: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1012690215607082Young athletes and sport schools 1 Developing young athletes: The role of private sport schools in the Norwegian sport system Abstract 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 network of sports schools, the most successful of which are private and require that parents pay a fee, and the social democratic values of Norway.Data were collected through a series of interviews with 35 respondents from nine stakeholder groups, including athletes, coaches, parents and sport school managers. The research describes an elite sport system that is successful in producing medal winning athletes, but which is organizationally fragmented, uncoordinated and under-funded with regard to youth talent identification and development and susceptible to tensions between key actors. The primary analytical framework is Kingdon's multiple streams framework augmented by path dependency theory. The findings include, a picture of an elite youth sport development system in which multiple and overlapping problems have received, at best, only partial policy solutions some of which, such as the growth of private sports schools, have emerged by default. When focusing attention on the relationship between structure and agency in the policy process it is argued that the government, through its inaction, has allowed sports schools the policy space to expand. The consequence is that the government has, whether deliberately or not, enabled the strengthening of a commercial elite youth sport development system, while still preserving its egalitarian and non-interventionist credentials. KeywordsElite sport schools; Norway; sport policy, youth talent development, multiple streams, path dependency Young athletes and sport schools 2 Developing young athletes: The role of private sport schools in the Norwegian sport system Among the characteristics which define modern high performance sport, two of the most striking are the intensification of competition between countries, despite the end of the Cold War, and the increasing competition between sports for a share of the pool of sporting talent (Green and Houlihan, 2005;Houlihan and Zheng, 2013). One consequence of these two

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Section: The Norwegian Elite Sport Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Developing young athletes: The role of private sport schools in the Norwegian sport system

Kristiansen

Houlihan

2015

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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“…When reflecting on current elite sport developments in Scandinavia, there are indeed strong reasons to emphasize the linkage -or balance -between elite and mass sport. At the surface the picture looks quite harmonious: compared to most other countries sport participation in the population is high (Ibsen and Seippel 2010) and, compared to their size, the countries do well in international sports (Andersen and Ronglan 2012).…”

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“…Mass and elite sport are, except Denmark, not organizationally separated, and a substantial part of the labour put into this field is of a non-salaried, voluntary type (Ibsen and Seippel 2010). Although differently organized at the central level, also Denmark is characterized by close ties between elite and mass sport given strong voluntary sport federations responsible for the whole variety of activities within their specific sport.…”

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Elite sport in Scandinavian welfare states: legitimacy under pressure?

Ronglan

2014

International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics

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Dette er siste tekst-versjon av artikkelen, og den kan inneholde små forskjeller fra forlagets pdf-versjon. Forlagets pdf-versjon finner du på www.tandfonline.com: http://dx.doi.org/10. 1080/19406940.2014.987309 This is the final text version of the article, and it may contain minor differences from the journal's pdf version. The original publication is available at www.tandfonline.com: http://dx.doi.org/10. 1080/19406940.2014

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“…Unlike in many other countries, the Dutch government's involvement in sport is not restricted or guided by a specific law (Ibsen andSeippel 2010, Hallmann andPetry 2013). While the national government encourages active participation in sports, it considers organisation of sport a matter for 'private' and 'local' initiatives.…”

Section: Qualitative Stagementioning

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From welfare state to participation society? Austerity measures and local sport policy in the Netherlands

Hoekman

Roest

Poel

2017

International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics

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This study investigates whether the shift from welfare state to participation society in the context of austerity in the Netherlands has had consequences for local sport policy. The central research questions are (1) do municipal sport budgets show evidence of a move away from classical welfare state values towards a participation society? and (2) do changes in local sport policy suggest a move away from classical welfare state values towards a participation society?First, we analysed spending on sport across all Dutch municipalities. Second, we quantitatively and qualitatively analysed 104 municipal coalition agreements for the 2014-2018 governing period. The approach used was interpretive, focusing on dominant or hegemonic discourses or storylines within local sport policy.It shows that Local sport policy in the Netherlands still hinges strongly on welfare state values and has not yet been hit by serious austerity measures. We found no evidence of a neoliberal slant or an emphasis on free-market and private entrepreneurship. Rather, the accent is on an expanded role for voluntary sport clubs (VSCs) in operating sport facilities and as policy implementer. We conclude that the shift in narrative from classical welfare state to participation society has, as yet, had limited effect on local sport policy. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Voluntary organized sport in Denmark and Norway

Cited by 71 publications

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Developing young athletes: The role of private sport schools in the Norwegian sport system

Developing young athletes: The role of private sport schools in the Norwegian sport system

Elite sport in Scandinavian welfare states: legitimacy under pressure?

From welfare state to participation society? Austerity measures and local sport policy in the Netherlands

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