Convergence or resurgence? Roy McCree Roy McCree Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies The University of West Indies St. Augustine Trinidad and Tobago West Indies identify the article's problem statement/key issue(s) identify the objective and scope of the article identify the article's (principal) methodology identify the article's main conclusion discuss how Caribbean countries may apply/benefit from the (results of the) article
SPORT POLICY AND THE NEW PUBLIC MANAGEMENT IN THE CARIBBEAN
Convergence or resurgence?
Roy McCree
Roy McCree
Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic
Studies
The University of West Indies
St. Augustine
Trinidad and Tobago
West Indies
- identify the article's problem statement/key issue(s)
- identify the objective and scope of the article
- identify the article's (principal) methodology
- identify the article's main conclusion
- discuss how Caribbean countries may apply/benefit from the (results of the) article
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CONCLUSION
The recent attempts to redesign, refashion or reorganize public sport delivery systems
across the western world around notions of mass and elite sport performance through
the (re)formulation of public sport policy has marked a defining moment in the
development of sport and the role of the state in that process. While these reforms had
various historical antecedents and were influenced by the neo-liberal turn expressed
through the NPM, it is important to recognize that they all took place or gained
momentum in the context of a particular figuration of economic, political, social and
sporting processes, which provided the legitimizing or justificatory framework for their
adoption. In order to examine the nature and spread of this public policy turn in sport,
we employed Pollitt’s stagist or multilayered conception of convergence together with
Powell and DiMaggio’s notion of mimetic isomorphism to show that in the context of
the Caribbean country of Trinidad and Tobago, the reforms in public sport delivery
bore similarities at the discursive, decisional and practical levels of convergence with
those undertaken in several more advanced western countries although some of these
reforms represented a resurgence of past ideas and efforts to transform the
development of sport. Much more empirical work needs to be done however at the
level of practice as well as ‘results’ to get a better sense of the variations and nuances in
the sport policy process as well as to distinguish between the processes of convergence,
divergence and resurgence.
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