Barrie Houlihan
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 271392 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Barrie Houlihan |
| PRENOMES | Barrie |
| SOBRENOME | Houlihan |
| ASSINATURA | HOULIHAN B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Loughborough University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0701-6681 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 48 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 279 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 7 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1984 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Comparative Elite Sport Development
Managing Organizational and Media Stress
This case study focuses on how Norwegian ski jumpers performed in the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and the following FIS (International Ski and Snowboard Federation) ski flying World Championships 2022 in Vikersund, Norway, despite organizational conflict at the management level and intense and sustained media coverage the entire season. Five athletes (one third of the elite squad) were interviewed about how they coped with the stressors. The res…
Sport Policy in China
Acknowledging China’s established status as a global sporting superpower, this is the first book to systematically investigate sport policy in that country. \n \nWith a focus on sport development in the most recent three decades, Sport Policy in China explores a wide range of topics in Chinese sport, including elite sport development, professional sports, major sports events, sport for all, the political context within which sport is interiorised…
Politics and Sport
Four overlapping definitions of politics are presented (as institutions of government, social relations, decision‐making processes and outcomes) and the implications for the study of sport are examined. The implications of Lukesian and Foucauldian conceptualisations of power for the study of sport politics are discussed. The domestic and foreign policy motives for government involvement in sport are explored with particular emphasis on the sport …
Developing young athletes
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 …
Elite Youth Sport Policy and Management
Political Science, Sociology and the Study of Sport
This chapter explores the nature of the relationship between sociology and politics. It considers how the relationship might be developed to the mutual benefit of both social sciences. The chapter deals with a brief discussion of the problems arising from disciplinary fragmentation and the tendency to isolate concept development from theory development. The chapter also explores two central concepts within political science – power and ideas – an…
Managing Elite Sport Systems
Without their individual talent, elite athletes like Maria Sharapova, Tiger Woods, Veronica Campbell and Inge De Brujin would have not developed their impressive sporting careers. However talented, athletes’ successes are not possible without: the network of sports clubs where they develop as athletes; the training and competition opportunities they are offered; the guidance from coaches, physiotherapists, doctors, dieticians and sports scientist…
Interrogating States’ Soft Power Strategies
Central to this article is the use of sports mega-events as part of a state's “soft power” strategy. The article offers two things: first, a critique of the “soft power” concept and a clearer understanding of what it refers to by drawing on the political use of sports mega-events by states; second, the article seeks to understand how and why sports mega-events are attractive to states with different political systems and at different stages of ec…
Anti-doping
Editorial 1. Elite sportspersons and commodity control: anti-doping as quality assurance 2. Doping, European law and the implications of Meca-Medina 3. One step too far - about WADA's whereabouts rule 4. On the duty of the doctor not to disclose athlete doping data without consent 5. A qualitative analysis of the experiences of elite athletes who have admitted to doping for performance enhancement 6. The 36th meeting of the Pay and Conditions Com…
The Youth Olympic Games
Through the content analytic method, this chapter examines the external and internal media coverage devoted to the two inaugural Youth Olympic Games (YOG) events in 2010 and 2012. The conceptualized dimensions of media salience in agenda setting research was employed in the study, as mainstream external media (newspaper) and internal new media outlets were examined to determine the amount and type of coverage devoted to the YOG. There have been n…
Sports Mega-Events as Part of a Nation's Soft Power Strategy
Research Highlights and Abstract The article discusses how states are increasingly using sports mega-events as part of their ‘soft power’ strategies The limited literature on ‘soft power’ and sports mega-events fails to either explain the concept and how it pertains to sport or provide examples that operationalize the concept empirically. Further research can build on the idea of sports mega-events being used for public diplomacy; the case of Ger…
The Olympics and Elite Sport Policy
The aim of the paper is to explore the consequences of the intensification of competition among the most successful countries at the Olympic Games – the sports powers – for participating countries, potential host countries and the International Olympic Committee. The paper begins by tracing briefly the emergence of increasingly sophisticated and expensive elite sports systems and then examines some of the characteristics of these systems paying p…
Chinese Olympic sport policy
The article examines the extent to which, and the manner in which, the Chinese government managed its relationship with the Olympic movement following its re-engagement with international elite sport competition in the mid 1970s. Locating the analysis in the literature on globalisation, the article notes the limited research exploring the role of the state in managing the relationship between domestic and global sport. Based on extensive document…
Sport Policy in Britain
Since 1990, Britain has seen a period of unprecedented public investment in, and political commitment to, sport. In this book, Iain Lindsey and Barrie Houlihan examine and analyze sport policy since the appointment of John Major as leader of the Conservative Party in 1990. John Major’s period as Prime Minister was a watershed in British sport policy marking the beginning of a prolonged period of public and lottery investment and relatively high p…
Politics and the London 2012 Olympics
This article traces the emergence of security at the Olympic Games as a key concern of host governments and of the Olympic movement and analyses the implications of this heightened concern for the delivery of the Games, the local host community and for national security policy. It is argued that the Olympic Games, as a high profile media event, provide an increasingly attractive political opportunity structure for a range of political actors—an a…
Participation in Sport
1. Introduction 2. England 3. The Netherlands 4. Germany 5. Norway 6. Hungary 7. Bulgaria 8. Finland 9. South Africa 10. India 11. China 12. Singapore 1 3. Japan 14. Australia 1 5. New Zealand 16. United States of America 17. Canada 18. Conclusion
Sport and Society
Organized around themes of exclusion and opportunity, commercialism and the global arena of sport, this edition provides much-needed coverage of the relations between sport practice, social policy and the social contexts in which both occur
Social Capital and Sport Governance in Europe
1. Social Capital, Governance and Sport Barrie Houlihan and Margaret Groeneveld 2. The EU and Sport Governance: Between Economic and Social Values Borja Garcia 3. Czech Sport Governance Cultures and a Plurality of Social Capitals: Politicking Zone, Movement and Community Dino Numerato 4. Danish Sport Governance: Tradition in Transition H. Thomas R. Persson 5. Sport and Social Capital in England Andrew Adams 6. Social Capital and Sport Governance …
Policy Transfer and Learning From the West
The article examines the engagement of the People's Republic of China with global sport using basketball as an example. Following a discussion of the priority given to national elite team sport success in contemporary China, the article explores the range of mechanisms that facilitate sport globalization and focuses particularly on evaluating the utility of the concepts of policy transfer and lesson drawing. The examination of the concepts is ach…
Sport and Policy
Sport and Policy is the first book of its kind to critically analyse the regulatory role of the state and its impact on sport and the intersections of sport with other areas of government policy. Offering a unique and comprehensive examination of how sport is affected by a range of government policy, each chapter uses an international comparative approach in order to facilitate a broad understanding of sport and policy in a global context. This b…
Sport and Policy
Sport and Policy is the first book of its kind to critically analyse the regulatory role of the state and its impact on sport and the intersections of sport with other areas of government policy. Offering a unique and comprehensive examination of how sport is affected by a range of government policy, each chapter uses an international comparative approach in order to facilitate a broad understanding of sport and policy in a global context.This bo…
Sport Policy
Sport Policy: a comparative analysis of stability and change builds on the growing general interest in the comparative study of sport policy and the more specific interest in processes of policy change and issues associated with policy convergence. In stark contrast to many other areas of public policy such as education, personal welfare and health care there is a paucity of theoretically informed comparative studies in sport. Over recent years t…
Comparative elite sport development
Modernization and Sport
This article evaluates the impact of New Labour’s ‘modernization project’ on two key non‐departmental public bodies for sport, Sport England and UK Sport. Our analysis concentrates on identifying the sources of the general momentum for modernization in the sport sector, how it has been interpreted by government in relation to the two organizations, the nature and consequences of modernization for both organizations, and the future of modernizatio…
Sports Mega-Events as Part of a Nation's Soft Power Strategy
Research Highlights and Abstract The article discusses how states are increasingly using sports mega-events as part of their ‘soft power’ strategies The limited literature on ‘soft power’ and sports mega-events fails to either explain the concept and how it pertains to sport or provide examples that operationalize the concept empirically. Further research can build on the idea of sports mega-events being used for public diplomacy; the case of Ger…
Sport, National Identity and Public Policy
The paper examines the use made of sport by governments to help manage identity. It begins with an exploration of the relationship between sport and ethnic culture and continues with an analysis of the ways in which sports can be used to aid the state and achieve its objectives of legitimacy, territorial integrity, and citizen commitment. This introduction is followed by an examination of the particular problems of identity faced by Canada, Irela…
Homogenization, Americanization, and Creolization of Sport
The paper explores the relationship between globalization and the concept of cultural imperialism. In addition, the paper addresses the problem of assessing the significance of particular sports and forms of organization of sport in the relationship between the global culture and recipient cultures. The paper distinguishes between the reach or penetration of the global culture and the response of recipient communities. Material is drawn from a nu…
Sporting Excellence, Schools and Sports Development
The increased emphasis on the pursuit of elite international sporting achievement has inevitably meant that the role of the education system in England and Wales, and schools in particular, in contributing to elite success has been the subject of considerable debate and a focus for government intervention. Yet school sport remains a highly contested policy area subject to pressure from a range of, often competing, sectoral interests such as educa…
Interrogating States’ Soft Power Strategies
Central to this article is the use of sports mega-events as part of a state's “soft power” strategy. The article offers two things: first, a critique of the “soft power” concept and a clearer understanding of what it refers to by drawing on the political use of sports mega-events by states; second, the article seeks to understand how and why sports mega-events are attractive to states with different political systems and at different stages of ec…
Modernization and Sport
This article evaluates the impact of New Labour’s ‘modernization project’ on two key non‐departmental public bodies for sport, Sport England and UK Sport. Our analysis concentrates on identifying the sources of the general momentum for modernization in the sport sector, how it has been interpreted by government in relation to the two organizations, the nature and consequences of modernization for both organizations, and the future of modernizatio…
Governmentality, Modernization, and the “Disciplining” of National Sporting Organizations
This article investigates 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. We draw on neo-Foucauldian writings on “governmentality” to problematize governmental activities directed at shaping, channeling, and guiding the conduct of NSOs. We conclude that, although effective “respons…
Public Sector Sport Policy
Despite the increasing involvement of governments in sport, and the high level of academic interest in sports-related public policy issues such as equity, doping, harassment and violence, there is remarkably little analysis of sport policy that utilizes the major models and frameworks for analysis widely adopted in other policy areas. Following the development of a set of criteria for assessing the adequacy of analytic frameworks, four major meso…
The changing status of school sport and physical education
This paper examines the changing political salience of school sport and physical education (PE) over the last 15 years. A brief survey of the recent history of school sport and PE based on an analysis of a range of policy documents published by professional bodies and government departments and agencies is followed by a discussion of two theoretical frameworks for explaining policy change, namely the advocacy coalition framework and multiple stre…
Policy Transfer and Learning From the West
The article examines the engagement of the People's Republic of China with global sport using basketball as an example. Following a discussion of the priority given to national elite team sport success in contemporary China, the article explores the range of mechanisms that facilitate sport globalization and focuses particularly on evaluating the utility of the concepts of policy transfer and lesson drawing. The examination of the concepts is ach…
Developing young athletes
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 …
The Olympics and Elite Sport Policy
The aim of the paper is to explore the consequences of the intensification of competition among the most successful countries at the Olympic Games – the sports powers – for participating countries, potential host countries and the International Olympic Committee. The paper begins by tracing briefly the emergence of increasingly sophisticated and expensive elite sports systems and then examines some of the characteristics of these systems paying p…
Advocacy Coalitions and Elite Sport Policy Change in Canada and the United Kingdom
This paper explores the process of elite sport policy change in two sports (swimming and track and field athletics1) and their respective national sport organizations (NSOs) in Canada and national governing bodies of sport (NGBs) in the United Kingdom (UK). The nature of policy change is a complex and multifaceted process and a primary aim is to identify and analyse key sources ofpolicy change through insights provided by the advocacy coalition f…
Sport and the end of apartheid
The contribution of sport to the ending of apartheid is examined. It is argued that claims for the effectiveness of sports diplomacy often exceeds the available evidence. However, the association between opposition to apartheid and sport was strong at least from the early 1960s up to the transition to democracy. It is argued that while it is clearly impossible to quantify the contribution made by sports sanctions to the end of apartheid it is pos…
Chinese Olympic sport policy
The article examines the extent to which, and the manner in which, the Chinese government managed its relationship with the Olympic movement following its re-engagement with international elite sport competition in the mid 1970s. Locating the analysis in the literature on globalisation, the article notes the limited research exploring the role of the state in managing the relationship between domestic and global sport. Based on extensive document…
Anti‐Doping Policy in Sport
The characteristics and functioning of international policy processes are examined through the analysis of a case which explores the development of policy towards doping by athletes. Changes are traced in the dominant perception of the issue of doping in sport from a series of relatively self‐contained problems which could be addressed by individual sports federations or competition organizers to one that requires extensive co‐operation between f…
Politics and the London 2012 Olympics
This article traces the emergence of security at the Olympic Games as a key concern of host governments and of the Olympic movement and analyses the implications of this heightened concern for the delivery of the Games, the local host community and for national security policy. It is argued that the Olympic Games, as a high profile media event, provide an increasingly attractive political opportunity structure for a range of political actors—an a…
Europe's ageing infrastructure
The politics of sports policy in Britain
This paper considers the nature of the policy process for sport by examining the development of policy towards football hooliganism and drug abuse by athletes. The paper begins by reviewing briefly a range of different conceptualizations of the policy process, particularly that of a 'policy community'. Using the concept of a policy community, the paper explores the development of policy towards football hooliganism and drug abuse by athletes. It …
The Professionalization of Public Sector Sport and Leisure Management
1988). The Professionalization of Public Sector Sport and Leisure Management. Local Government Studies: Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 69-82
The Regional Offices of the Doe — Policemen or Mediators? A Study of Local Housing Policy
The article begins with a review of the existing literature on the regional level of government and the ‘regional state’, and proceeds to focus on the range of linkages which are found between the centre and local authorities. Seven linkages are identified and after an analysis of the regional level of government it is suggested that professional and technical linkages predominate. The roles of the regional offices of the DOE are then examined wi…
The Regional Offices of the Doe — Policemen or Mediators? A Study of Local Housing Policy
The article begins with a review of the existing literature on the regional level of government and the ‘regional state’, and proceeds to focus on the range of linkages which are found between the centre and local authorities. Seven linkages are identified and after an analysis of the regional level of government it is suggested that professional and technical linkages predominate. The roles of the regional offices of the DOE are then examined wi…
Policy implementation and central‐local government relations in England
This paper considers the increasing emphasis given in studies of policy implementation to negotiative and bargaining behaviour between and within implementing organisations. It relates these developments to the question of policy implementation within the framework of central‐local government relations. Two case studies from the housing policy area in England are used to explore the process of policy implementation, first the requirement on local…
The Professionalization of Public Sector Sport and Leisure Management
1988). The Professionalization of Public Sector Sport and Leisure Management. Local Government Studies: Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 69-82
The politics of sports policy in Britain
This paper considers the nature of the policy process for sport by examining the development of policy towards football hooliganism and drug abuse by athletes. The paper begins by reviewing briefly a range of different conceptualizations of the policy process, particularly that of a 'policy community'. Using the concept of a policy community, the paper explores the development of policy towards football hooliganism and drug abuse by athletes. It …
Europe's ageing infrastructure
Homogenization, Americanization, and Creolization of Sport
The paper explores the relationship between globalization and the concept of cultural imperialism. In addition, the paper addresses the problem of assessing the significance of particular sports and forms of organization of sport in the relationship between the global culture and recipient cultures. The paper distinguishes between the reach or penetration of the global culture and the response of recipient communities. Material is drawn from a nu…
Sport, Policy and Politics
Sport, National Identity and Public Policy
The paper examines the use made of sport by governments to help manage identity. It begins with an exploration of the relationship between sport and ethnic culture and continues with an analysis of the ways in which sports can be used to aid the state and achieve its objectives of legitimacy, territorial integrity, and citizen commitment. This introduction is followed by an examination of the particular problems of identity faced by Canada, Irela…
Sport and the end of apartheid
The contribution of sport to the ending of apartheid is examined. It is argued that claims for the effectiveness of sports diplomacy often exceeds the available evidence. However, the association between opposition to apartheid and sport was strong at least from the early 1960s up to the transition to democracy. It is argued that while it is clearly impossible to quantify the contribution made by sports sanctions to the end of apartheid it is pos…
Anti‐Doping Policy in Sport
The characteristics and functioning of international policy processes are examined through the analysis of a case which explores the development of policy towards doping by athletes. Changes are traced in the dominant perception of the issue of doping in sport from a series of relatively self‐contained problems which could be addressed by individual sports federations or competition organizers to one that requires extensive co‐operation between f…
Politics and Sport
Sporting Excellence, Schools and Sports Development
The increased emphasis on the pursuit of elite international sporting achievement has inevitably meant that the role of the education system in England and Wales, and schools in particular, in contributing to elite success has been the subject of considerable debate and a focus for government intervention. Yet school sport remains a highly contested policy area subject to pressure from a range of, often competing, sectoral interests such as educa…
Sport, Policy and Politics
Sport, Policy and Politics is a genuinely comparative analysis of sport policy-making in five countries - Australia, Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom and North America. Some of the issues raised in this book include: * the process of sport policy-making * the administrative framework for sport: the responsibilities of central or federal governments, state governments and local authorities * the division of responsibility between different leve…
The politics of sports development
The Politics of Sports Development
This text traces the evolution of sports development in the UK in the context of broader shifts in sport and social policy. It explores the emergence of sports development from the early years of public policy for sport in the 1960s to the contemporary era. This analysis is set against a background of policy initiatives, from 'Sport For All', 'Action Sport' and CCT, to the National Lottery and the contemporary emphasis on sport as a factor in the…
Advocacy Coalitions and Elite Sport Policy Change in Canada and the United Kingdom
This paper explores the process of elite sport policy change in two sports (swimming and track and field athletics1) and their respective national sport organizations (NSOs) in Canada and national governing bodies of sport (NGBs) in the United Kingdom (UK). The nature of policy change is a complex and multifaceted process and a primary aim is to identify and analyse key sources ofpolicy change through insights provided by the advocacy coalition f…
Elite Sport Development
Elite Sport Development addresses important sport policy questions and explores the emergence, development and current status of elite sport development policy with detailed examination of Australia, Canada and the UK. The sports compared are swimming, track and field athletics, and sailing. The book looks at the problems faced in establishing an elite sport development infrastructure covering facilities, coaching, sports science and competition.…
Public Sector Sport Policy
Despite the increasing involvement of governments in sport, and the high level of academic interest in sports-related public policy issues such as equity, doping, harassment and violence, there is remarkably little analysis of sport policy that utilizes the major models and frameworks for analysis widely adopted in other policy areas. Following the development of a set of criteria for assessing the adequacy of analytic frameworks, four major meso…
The changing status of school sport and physical education
This paper examines the changing political salience of school sport and physical education (PE) over the last 15 years. A brief survey of the recent history of school sport and PE based on an analysis of a range of policy documents published by professional bodies and government departments and agencies is followed by a discussion of two theoretical frameworks for explaining policy change, namely the advocacy coalition framework and multiple stre…
Governmentality, Modernization, and the “Disciplining” of National Sporting Organizations
This article investigates 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. We draw on neo-Foucauldian writings on “governmentality” to problematize governmental activities directed at shaping, channeling, and guiding the conduct of NSOs. We conclude that, although effective “respons…
Comparative Elite Sport Development
Politics and Sport
There are many definitions of politics which, while not mutually exclusive, highlight distinct understandings and orientations. The dominant definition limits politics to the study of the institutions of government at national and transnational levels. However, this narrow focus on the public sphere has been strongly challenged by, among others, critical theorists and feminists on the grounds that politics can also be defined more broadly as conc…
Independence and Accountability
The UK National Anti-Doping Organisation (NADO), the Drug Free Sport Directorate (DFSD), is located within the same organization, UK Sport, which is responsible for maximizing elite sport success. This article evaluates the demand for an independent NADO, which comes not only from within the UK but also from international anti-doping agencies. The concept of independence is examined within the context of broader concerns with accountability and t…
Comparative elite sport development
Modernization and Sport
This article evaluates the impact of New Labour’s ‘modernization project’ on two key non‐departmental public bodies for sport, Sport England and UK Sport. Our analysis concentrates on identifying the sources of the general momentum for modernization in the sport sector, how it has been interpreted by government in relation to the two organizations, the nature and consequences of modernization for both organizations, and the future of modernizatio…
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