Corruption in sport: From the playing field to the field of policy
Abstract
How
is corruption in sport evolving into a global public policy issue? In
the past century, four trends have affected sport according to Paoli and
Donati (2013) – de-amateurisation at the turn of the twentieth century,
medicalisation since the 1960s, politicisation and commercialisation to
the point where sport is now a business worth more than US$141 billion
annually. Each of these trends had a corrupting effect on what is
generally perceived as a past ‘golden age’ of sport. In the twenty-first
century more public funding is being directed into sport in the
developed and developing world. As a result this paper will argue
organised sport has entered a fifth evolutionary trend –
criminalisation. In this latest phase, public policy needs to grapple
with what constitutes corruption in what has historically been a private
market.
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