Governmentality, modernization, and the 'disciplining' of national sporting organizations: Athletics in Australia and the United Kingdom

Article Abstract:

The nature of, and policy outcomes from, the relationship between federal/central government departments and agencies, and the national sporting organizations (NSOs) for athletics in Australia and the United Kingdom is examined. Although effective 'responsibilization' of NSOs remains a clear ambition, governments in both countries have shown themselves to be very willing to apply disciplinary forms of practice in order to ensure compliance with prevailing government rationalities.

United Kingdom, Australia

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The institutionalization of an elite sport organization in Norway: The case of "Olympiatoppen"

Article Abstract:

The sport organization in Norway, Olympiatoppen, interprets and transforms the international ideas and structures in ways that are acceptable according to the norms and values in the national field of sport. It is claimed that the Olympiatoppen contributes to the development of a monolithic elite sport system and that the distinctive character of each sport is erased.

Norway, Bureaucracy, Sports, Organization theory

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Old times there are not forgotten: sport, identity, and the Confederate flag in the Dixie South

Article Abstract:

The importance given to the Confederate flag in the American South's local sport cultures is analyzed.

All Other Miscellaneous Textile Product Mills, Flags & Banners, Fabricated textile products, not elsewhere classified, East South Central States, West South Central States, Evaluation, Flags, Ethnology, Cultural anthropology, Southern United States

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