2022 eass & ISSA World Congress of Sociology of Sport

Session

PS 66: Sport, Policy and Governance 6

10 Jun 2022, 09:00

Description

Chair: Fiona Dowling
Room: 7E02, Building HZM Ground Floor

214. How Are Policies Promoting Physical Activity Monitored? Results of a Systematic Review

Sven Messing

10/06/2022, 09:00

Objectives
While there are numerous efforts to monitor policies that promote health-enhancing behaviours such as physical activity, the monitoring methods used by international organizations and academic institutions differ substantially. This study aims to describe the review methods currently in use and discuss potential benefits and pitfalls of these methods.

Methods
A systematic...

215. Enhancing ‘social’ in the definition of accessibility of environments of physical activity (PA)

Ilkka Virmasalo

10/06/2022, 09:20

Accessibility of PA environments is a factor that essentially affects the PA behavior of the population and the knowledge addressing it is an important resource for sport planning. There is a lot of relevant information available, but it is produced from delineated perspectives and across disciplines. Based on a literature review conducted in the YLLI project, it was found that studies...

216. Sport and policy in contested 'nations': analysing policy and political considerations in Taiwan and Scotland

Stuart Whigham, Ren-Shiang Jiang

10/06/2022, 09:40

Policy learning from other international contexts is an important strategy during the sport policy making process for the government of Taiwan, and recent research has examined the potential corollaries between Taiwan and Scotland with regards to sports policy. Although the status of Taiwan and Scotland is not the same, interesting comparisons can be made given their shared status as...

217. Sport Related Content Of Election Programs And Coalition Agreement

Torsten Wojciechowski, Michael Kohlegger

10/06/2022, 10:00

Qbjectives

Election programs are a good predictor for coalition agreements and the actions of politicians (Merz & Riegel 2013). Only a limited number of studies adress sport related content in election programs (Schmidt 1979, Chaney 2015) and no studies analyse the content of election programs in relation to coalition agreements. This paper will close this gap.

Methods

The sport...