Good governance literature
Here you can find the documents and reports produced by the AGGIS group as a part of its research.
Limits to the autonomy of sport
This paper by Arnout Geeraert seeks to provide a concise overview of the application of EU law on sporting rules as it delineates the boundaries of the autonomy of sport with regard to EU law. It also provides an overview of the different methods of enforcement of EU law on sports bodies and the legal and political limitations thereof.
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Implementation and compliance of good governance in International Sport Federations
In this paper, Aline Bos, Frank van Eekeren and Barrie Houlihan address the issues of implementation and compliance of good governance in international sports federations.
Transparency
In this paper, Aline Bos and Frank van Eekeren address the concept of transparency, by looking at its definition, its different approaches and ways of operationalising it.
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Accountability and Good Governance
One of the central elements of good governance is the existence of effective accountability processes. Yet, as with so many aspects of good governance, the concept is hard to define and even harder to operationalise. In this paper, Barrie Houlihan discusses the concept of accountability.
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Monitoring systems of good governance
It is essential to ask the basic questions why, what and how – and by whom – when you set out to monitor an organisation's governance practices. Simona Kustec Lipicer, Damjan Lajh and Ivana Grgić from the Centre for Political Sciences Research at the University of Ljubljana address these fundamental questions in their report to AGGIS.
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Stakeholders, stakeholding and good governance in international sport federations
In this paper, professor Barrie Houlihan raises a number of fundamental questions about the application of stakeholder theory in the world of international sports organisations. Can stakeholders be properly defined, and are they necessarily supporters of good governance?
AGGIS principles of Good Governance in sport
Three lists presenting Good Governance principles from three different actors; international governmental and non-governmental organisations, scholars and the sports organisations. The lists describe when specific Good Governance principles have been published, sum up the key concepts and present the most important Good Governance principles.
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- AGGIS principles of Good Governance in sport - International Governmental Organisations, International Non-Governmental Organisations and Transnational Organisations
- AGGIS principles of Good Governance in sport - Scholars
- AGGIS principles of Good Governance in sport - Sports Organisations
The 'Social Dialogue' in European Professional Football
Social dialogue in professional football is essentially about the credibility of the sports stakeholders and their capacity to self-regulate their activities in the name of the autonomy that they claim, argue the authors Michele Colucci and Arnout Geeraert in this report.
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The governance network of European football - introducing new governance approaches to steer football at the EU level
The authors of this article, Arnout Geeraert, Jeroen Scheerder and Hans Bruyninckx, aim at introducing a new approach in the academic debate on governance failures in professional football.
Worldwide relevance of the Games
This paper by Simona Kustec Lipicer discusses the implementation dilemmas of Slovenian sport policy though time.
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Existing governance principles in sport: a review of published litterature
In this paper, Jean‐Loup Chappelet and Michaël Mrkonjic examines the theme of "good" governance and present an overview of existing and published governance principles in sport.
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