Swedish Sport Policy in an Era of Neoliberalism
An Expression of Social Entrepreneurship
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5285543 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel Bjärsholm (Linnaeus University, corresponding author), Johan R Norberg, Johan Norberg (0000-0002-8730-8782, Malmö University) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Pages | 715310-715310 |
| Publication date | 2021-09-13 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Frontiers in Sports and Active Living (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2624-9367 • E-ISSN: 2624-9367 |
| Publisher | Frontiers Media SA (PUBLISHER • CH) |
| DOI | 10.3389/fspor.2021.715310 |
| PMID | 34589703 |
| OpenAlex | W3089714056 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 70 |
Since the turn of the millennium, Sweden has, like many other countries, become more neoliberal in many areas, including that of sport. The government has increased its expectations on the sports movement and become more result-oriented, which, for example, its revised motives for supporting the sports movement and the establishment of an audit organization can illustrate. However, in contrast to other countries, the Swedish government has not introduced any financial cutbacks in its support for sports. Rather, the opposite is true. The financial support has increased significantly over the last two decades. In the paper, we argue that this contradictory development of Swedish sport policy can be understood as expressions of neoliberalism and social entrepreneurship. As a theoretical concept, social entrepreneurship offers a way of understanding the increased Swedish government support for sport. There are in particular two underlying reasons for this claim. Firstly, sport is considered as a solution to various societal problems, such as social exclusion and refugee crises. Secondly, much of the increased support has been in form of various large-scale, earmarked, and time-limited political initiatives/reforms and project grants, which all have aimed to achieve social change through sport, such as social inclusion. In the paper, we consider these initiatives as expressions of social entrepreneurship. This paper contributes to the ongoing scholarly debate on how neoliberalism and neoliberal policies in the public sector have affected sport organizations. Also, by using social entrepreneurship theory, we provide new theoretical insights into how sport policy can be understood and analyzed
Economic system · Economics · Entrepreneurship · Government (linguistics · Neoliberalism (international relations · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social entrepreneurship · Sociology · Gender Diversity and Inequality · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
Sport as a Means of Responding to Social Problems
Research in social entrepreneurship
From old public administration to new public management
Social and Commercial Entrepreneurship
The multiple faces of social entrepreneurship
A Positive Theory of Social Entrepreneurship
Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship
Conceptions of Social Enterprise and Social Entrepreneurship in Europe and the United States
Public management
Modern Challenges to the Welfare State and the Antecedents of the Third Way
Transformations of the Swedish Welfare State
Civil Society and State Relations in Sweden
Conclusions
Demystifying the relationship between new public management and social entrepreneurship
Football for Inclusion
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Neoliberal convergence in North America and Western Europe
Toward a New Social Contract? The Participation of Civil Society in Swedish Welfare Policymaking, 1958–2012
Neoliberalism in the European Union
Sport in Europe’s era of austerity
They Are All Organizations”
New Public Management reforms in Europe and their effects
Problems, Methods, and Theories in the Study of Politics, or What's Wrong with Political Science and What to Do About it
Case Selection Techniques in Case Study Research
Governance’ as a bridge between disciplines
The rise and decline of corporatism
A Public Management for All Seasons
Comparative Politics and the Comparative Method
Taking social entrepreneurship seriously
Returning the 'social' to social entrepreneurship
Same same, but different? Exploring the organizational identities of Swedish voluntary sports
Secondary Analysis and the Relationship between Official and Academic Social Research
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |