From social democracy to authoritarian populism

State intervention in sport and physical recreation in contemporary Britain

Dados Bibliográficos

ID11436635
AutoresJohn Hargreaves (Goldsmiths University of London, autor correspondente)
Ano1985
Volume4
Fascículo2
Páginas219-226
Data de publicação1985-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoLeisure Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0261-4367 • E-ISSN: 1466-4496
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/02614368500390161
OpenAlexW2152164306
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8
Referências 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 Until the late 1970s, social democracy was the leading hegemony, but this has now been replaced by authoritarian populism.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