Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item:
http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/30419
Title: | Government policy responses to Covid-19 in sport: a comparative study of China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, UK and the USA |
Authors: | Girginov, V Chen, S Alhakami, F Batuev, M Chalip, L |
Keywords: | Covid-19;policy analysis;use of policy instruments;access to sport;governance of sport;consumption of sport;comparative analysis of five countries |
Issue Date: | 30-Mar-2023 |
Publisher: | Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group) |
Citation: | Girginov, V. et al. (2023) 'Government policy responses to Covid-19 in sport: a comparative study of China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, UK and the USA', International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, 15 (2), pp. 229 - 248. doi: 10.1080/19406940.2023.2197001. |
Abstract: | The unprecedented abrupt stop of sport as a form of leisure and business activity causes by the Covid-19 pandemic urged re-examination of how we think and practice sport. Given the leading role of national governments in handling the health crisis, it is of critical importance to understand what policy actions have been implemented to sustain sport and its contribution to society. This is the first study to critically compare the government responses to Covid-19 in sport in China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, UK and the USA. It addresses the question how national governments use policy instruments to affect the governance, access to and consumption of sport during the pandemic. Regardless of ideological persuasions, the five governments framed exercise and sport as critical for personal and social wellbeing and as an antidot to the pandemic. This recognition of the role of sport was not matched with the same level of policy capacity to support the sector. Governments in all five countries have favoured elite over community sport. The directions and limits of central government interventions in sport depend on both the system of government and the ways that governments choose to engage with sport systems. It is not merely a matter of the overall degree of government centralization. The ways that governments can and do respond in a sport emergency are consequently dependent on the systems in place prior to the emergency. |
URI: | https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/30419 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1080/19406940.2023.2197001 |
ISSN: | 1940-6940 |
Appears in Collections: | Dept of Life Sciences Research Papers |
Files in This Item:
File | Description | Size | Format | |
---|---|---|---|---|
FullText.pdf | Copyright © 2023 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Accepted Manuscript version of the following article, accepted for publication in International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics. Vassil Girginov, Shushu Chen, Fawaz Alhakami, Mikhail Batuev & Laurence Chalip (2023) Government policy responses to Covid-19 in sport: a comparative study of China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, UK and the USA, International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, DOI: 10.1080/19406940.2023.2197001. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | 581.44 kB | Adobe PDF | View/Open |
This item is licensed under a Creative Commons License