Arnout Geeraert
Biographic Data
| ID | 4105928 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Arnout Geeraert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Arnout |
| FAMILY NAME | Geeraert |
| SIGNATURE | GEERAERT A |
| AFFILIATIONS | KU Leuven |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1544-7927 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
How the pursuit of public value facilitates collaborative governance
While existing research on collaborative governance and public value highlights challenges, this article shows how public value goals can foster collaboration. Drawing on public service motivation, sociological institutionalism, and deliberative democracy, it shows that pursuing public value can sustain participant motivation, maintain external legitimacy, and facilitate consensus-building. The empirical analysis of a major sport event illustrate…
The dark side of governance networks
This article addresses the often-neglected political dimension of interactive processes in governance networks. It identifies six discursive strategies private actors use to manipulate the beliefs of public meta-governors: promoting favourable problem definitions and policy solutions, layering, conversion, ceremonialism, and dualism. The article argues that typical features of governance networks facilitate the use of these strategies. The empiri…
A draw for Flemish nationalism
This article combines insights from historical institutionalism with the literature on ideational policy change to explain why Belgian sport institutions like the national football team appear as outliers in the story of the country's unidirectional move towards a decentralised federal state. It shows how Flemish nationalist ideas drove the asymmetrical decentralisation of the originally unitary Belgian sport system. On one hand, mechanisms of gr…
Good Governance in Sport
Michael Mrkonjic draws attention to the emergence of multiple newly associated functions within the sport system as a result of the implementation of good governance principles. He demonstrates that they can be executive or managerial and strategic or operational and can be integrated into different organisational units. Effectively performing these functions requires specific and general, technical or social competencies. By outlining types of g…
The dynamics of de‐delegation
What explains the reversal of transnational private rule‐making authority? Embedding constructivist insights within a rational principal–agent model, this article advances a five‐step sequential process that nuances the traditional explanation of delegitimation. It argues that entrepreneurs must first successfully promote the belief that the high costs of ineffective private policies follow from the private rule‐setter's flawed institutional attr…
Normative Market Europe
Focusing on legal and policy externalisation, this article demonstrates the necessity of an integrated perspective for understanding the EU’s unique identity in the governance of international sport. It shows that externalisation is characterised by a sequential stage process in which Normative Power Europe (NPE) and Market Power Europe (MPE) dynamics alternate and intertwine, bringing to life a Normative Market Europe. The EU’s NPE identity form…
It's Not That Easy Being Green
This article starts from the assumption that the European Union (EU) could play a leading part in reducing the negative environmental impacts of sport. The extent to which the EU fulfills its potential in this regard depends upon the integration of environmental objectives in EU sports policy. The article has a dual purpose. First, it analyzes the integration of environmental objectives at the different stages of the policy process. Second, it id…
Football is war
Legendary football coach Rinus Michels famously said that “top football is something like war. Whoever behaves too properly, is lost”. His metaphor perfectly captures the EU’s limits and opportunities to control the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA). There is a strong case for controlling FIFA, certainly within a European context. FIFA is however a highly autonomous organization and the importance of football in Europe even …
The EU controls Fifa and Uefa
This paper demonstrates that the EU can curtail the autonomy of FIFA and UEFA by building upon insights from Principal-Agent theory. It explores and explains the EU’s control over these organisations by mapping the actors and instruments that define EU control of FIFA and UEFA and discussing their activation and mitigation. In this light, it introduces a new perspective (exogenous control) and instrument (steering). Whether or not the EU deploys …
New EU Governance Modes in Professional Sport
This article explores the limits and opportunities for enhancing the democratic legitimacy of EU actions in the field of professional sport using new modes of governance. It presents a conceptual toolkit by which the ‘throughput legitimacy’ of an EU policy can be analysed. Analysing the throughput legitimacy of the European social dialogue, we establish that, by improving the latter, both input and output legitimacy can be increased. The EU could…
The European sectoral social dialogue committee in professional football
© 2014 Taylor & Francis. By analysing the political arena of the European Sectoral Social Dialogue Committee in the Professional Football Sector, the aim of this paper is to offer a better understanding of the Committee and its opportunities and prospects. First and foremost, the normative, legal context of the Committee precludes the conclusion of agreements that deviate from the Fédération Internationale de Football Association transfer rules o…
The EU controls Fifa and Uefa
This paper demonstrates that the EU can curtail the autonomy of FIFA and UEFA by building upon insights from Principal-Agent theory. It explores and explains the EU’s control over these organisations by mapping the actors and instruments that define EU control of FIFA and UEFA and discussing their activation and mitigation. In this light, it introduces a new perspective (exogenous control) and instrument (steering). Whether or not the EU deploys …
The dynamics of de‐delegation
What explains the reversal of transnational private rule‐making authority? Embedding constructivist insights within a rational principal–agent model, this article advances a five‐step sequential process that nuances the traditional explanation of delegitimation. It argues that entrepreneurs must first successfully promote the belief that the high costs of ineffective private policies follow from the private rule‐setter's flawed institutional attr…
Normative Market Europe
Focusing on legal and policy externalisation, this article demonstrates the necessity of an integrated perspective for understanding the EU’s unique identity in the governance of international sport. It shows that externalisation is characterised by a sequential stage process in which Normative Power Europe (NPE) and Market Power Europe (MPE) dynamics alternate and intertwine, bringing to life a Normative Market Europe. The EU’s NPE identity form…
New EU Governance Modes in Professional Sport
This article explores the limits and opportunities for enhancing the democratic legitimacy of EU actions in the field of professional sport using new modes of governance. It presents a conceptual toolkit by which the ‘throughput legitimacy’ of an EU policy can be analysed. Analysing the throughput legitimacy of the European social dialogue, we establish that, by improving the latter, both input and output legitimacy can be increased. The EU could…
Football is war
Legendary football coach Rinus Michels famously said that “top football is something like war. Whoever behaves too properly, is lost”. His metaphor perfectly captures the EU’s limits and opportunities to control the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA). There is a strong case for controlling FIFA, certainly within a European context. FIFA is however a highly autonomous organization and the importance of football in Europe even …
New EU Governance Modes in Professional Sport
This article explores the limits and opportunities for enhancing the democratic legitimacy of EU actions in the field of professional sport using new modes of governance. It presents a conceptual toolkit by which the ‘throughput legitimacy’ of an EU policy can be analysed. Analysing the throughput legitimacy of the European social dialogue, we establish that, by improving the latter, both input and output legitimacy can be increased. The EU could…
The European sectoral social dialogue committee in professional football
© 2014 Taylor & Francis. By analysing the political arena of the European Sectoral Social Dialogue Committee in the Professional Football Sector, the aim of this paper is to offer a better understanding of the Committee and its opportunities and prospects. First and foremost, the normative, legal context of the Committee precludes the conclusion of agreements that deviate from the Fédération Internationale de Football Association transfer rules o…
Football is war
Legendary football coach Rinus Michels famously said that “top football is something like war. Whoever behaves too properly, is lost”. His metaphor perfectly captures the EU’s limits and opportunities to control the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA). There is a strong case for controlling FIFA, certainly within a European context. FIFA is however a highly autonomous organization and the importance of football in Europe even …
The EU controls Fifa and Uefa
This paper demonstrates that the EU can curtail the autonomy of FIFA and UEFA by building upon insights from Principal-Agent theory. It explores and explains the EU’s control over these organisations by mapping the actors and instruments that define EU control of FIFA and UEFA and discussing their activation and mitigation. In this light, it introduces a new perspective (exogenous control) and instrument (steering). Whether or not the EU deploys …
Normative Market Europe
Focusing on legal and policy externalisation, this article demonstrates the necessity of an integrated perspective for understanding the EU’s unique identity in the governance of international sport. It shows that externalisation is characterised by a sequential stage process in which Normative Power Europe (NPE) and Market Power Europe (MPE) dynamics alternate and intertwine, bringing to life a Normative Market Europe. The EU’s NPE identity form…
It's Not That Easy Being Green
This article starts from the assumption that the European Union (EU) could play a leading part in reducing the negative environmental impacts of sport. The extent to which the EU fulfills its potential in this regard depends upon the integration of environmental objectives in EU sports policy. The article has a dual purpose. First, it analyzes the integration of environmental objectives at the different stages of the policy process. Second, it id…
The dynamics of de‐delegation
What explains the reversal of transnational private rule‐making authority? Embedding constructivist insights within a rational principal–agent model, this article advances a five‐step sequential process that nuances the traditional explanation of delegitimation. It argues that entrepreneurs must first successfully promote the belief that the high costs of ineffective private policies follow from the private rule‐setter's flawed institutional attr…
Good Governance in Sport
Michael Mrkonjic draws attention to the emergence of multiple newly associated functions within the sport system as a result of the implementation of good governance principles. He demonstrates that they can be executive or managerial and strategic or operational and can be integrated into different organisational units. Effectively performing these functions requires specific and general, technical or social competencies. By outlining types of g…
A draw for Flemish nationalism
This article combines insights from historical institutionalism with the literature on ideational policy change to explain why Belgian sport institutions like the national football team appear as outliers in the story of the country's unidirectional move towards a decentralised federal state. It shows how Flemish nationalist ideas drove the asymmetrical decentralisation of the originally unitary Belgian sport system. On one hand, mechanisms of gr…
How the pursuit of public value facilitates collaborative governance
While existing research on collaborative governance and public value highlights challenges, this article shows how public value goals can foster collaboration. Drawing on public service motivation, sociological institutionalism, and deliberative democracy, it shows that pursuing public value can sustain participant motivation, maintain external legitimacy, and facilitate consensus-building. The empirical analysis of a major sport event illustrate…
The dark side of governance networks
This article addresses the often-neglected political dimension of interactive processes in governance networks. It identifies six discursive strategies private actors use to manipulate the beliefs of public meta-governors: promoting favourable problem definitions and policy solutions, layering, conversion, ceremonialism, and dualism. The article argues that typical features of governance networks facilitate the use of these strategies. The empiri…
Political science (11 works) · Business (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Corporate governance (7 works) · Doping in Sports (7 works) · Economics (7 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works)