Review article

Interplay Between Politics and Sport in Political Science Theories

Simona Kustec Lipicer ; Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Alem Maksmuti ; Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Abstract

Times when relations between politics and sports did not exist – be it in everyday practices or within scientific research – is definitely long gone, if they ever even existed. Nevertheless, it seems today that, especially within scientific research, these relations do not receive appropriate attention in the territories of former socialist sports superpowers, being a priori denied and considered as unimportant. That is why the key motive of this article is to initiate a discussion about the relevance of knowledge and research of the relations between politics and sport from two perspectives – the existing world-wide political science research experiences gained so far and already conducted researches in the territory of former Yugoslavia. In doing so, we first theoretically define the context of sports and politics, and then with the use of the literature review method analyse their mutual connectivity in the world and, more narrowly, within the work of the scientific community in the region of former Yugoslavia. Based on the gained conclusions which confirm a tight and constant, but also often abstract and flat-rate understood interplay between both analysed phenomena, a special typology for their in-depth and political-science-focused study is delivered. It is believed that distinctions between political, polity and policy approaches to sport decisively influence the mode of their future interplay.

Keywords

state; public interest; democracy; former Yugoslavia

Hrčak ID:

64019

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/64019

Publication date:

31.1.2011.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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