From social democracy to authoritarian populism

State intervention in sport and physical recreation in contemporary Britain

Datos Bibliográficos

ID11436635
AutoresJohn Hargreaves (Goldsmiths University of London, autor de correspondencia)
Año1985
Volumen4
Número2
Páginas219-226
Fecha de publicación1985-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLeisure Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0261-4367 • E-ISSN: 1466-4496
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02614368500390161
OpenAlexW2152164306
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas4

The main features of the nature of state intervention in sport and recreation since the mid-1960s are analysed. Although British political culture has traditionally frowned on the state interfering in the way people spend their free time, there have been various pressures to intervene. Until the late 1970s, social democracy was the leading hegemony, but this has now been replaced by authoritarian populism. It is concluded that state intervention in sport and recreation (1) reinforces class divisions, (2) reproduces inequality between ethnic groups, (3) preserves gender divisions, (4) is permeated with the values of consumer culture, and (5) induces subordinate groups to identify with ‘the greater good of the nation’

Authoritarianism · Democracy · Ethnic group · Hegemony · Intervention (counseling · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Populism · Recreation · Sociology · State (computer science · Anthropology · Doping in Sports · Gender Studies · Law · Psychology · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society