Chaney, Paul  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2110-0436
2015.
Electoral discourse and the party politicization of sport in multi-level systems: analysis of UK elections 1945-2011.
International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics
7
(2)
, pp. 159-180.
10.1080/19406940.2014.921230
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Abstract
Mandate and accountability theory state that governments should implement the policies that they promised voters. Accordingly, this study addresses a key lacuna by exploring the role of electoral politics in shaping public policy on sport. Attention centres on issue-salience and policy framing in party manifestos in post-war UK elections. In an era of multi-level governance, the analysis also explores the impact of devolution in the UK where, since 1998, sport policy is mandated in four electoral systems in place of earlier, single state-wide ballots. The findings reveal that there has been a sharp increase in issue-salience over recent decades – thereby confirming the party politicization of sport as part of the wider rise of ‘valence politics’. They also show how parties increasingly frame sport proposals to achieve non-sport aims such as promoting social welfare and boosting international standing. Notably, the data underline the territorialization of sport policy following the UK’s move to quasi-federalism – as policy framing is now contingent on ‘regional’ socio-historical factors and party politics, including nation – building by civic nationalist parties.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Date Type: | Publication |
| Status: | Published |
| Schools: | Schools > Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education) |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| ISSN: | 1940-6940 |
| Date of First Compliant Deposit: | 30 March 2016 |
| Last Modified: | 28 Nov 2024 05:30 |
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/61985 |
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