Many scholars do not find evidence of a trickle-down effect from elite sport success to mass sport participation. Contrary to what is assumed by the trickle-down effect “theorem”, successful elite sportspeople do not seem ...

This study analyses the effect on interest in attending Danish national men’s team football matches when they are spread across different stadiums instead of playing them at the national stadium – in the Danish capital ...

Demokratisk fredsteori, og da spesielt dens normative variant, bygger på en forutsetning om demokratiske borgeres sentrale rolle for fred. Likevel blir individers holdninger og preferanser angående væpnet maktbruk sjelden ...

It is a common argument in Denmark that municipal involvement in professional team sports can be justified on the grounds of local impact. The use of public funds to directly or indirectly subsidise local professional team ...

Purpose Attendance at matches in the smaller European football leagues is challenged by the increased number of live broadcast matches, particularly covering the biggest leagues. The purpose of this paper is to analyse ...

Trust links ordinary citizens to the institutions that are intended to represent them, and thereby enhancing both the legitimacy and the effectiveness of democratic government (Bianco 1994; Gamson 1968; Braithwaite and ...

In this paper, we examine ethnic discrimination using sport as a laboratory. Applying a field experiment in the three Scandinavian countries—Sweden, Norway, and Denmark—we test whether foreign female minority groups ...

Masteroppgaven har gjennom kvalitativ metode og intervju av ti informanter spredt i organisasjonen sett nærmere på mobbing og seksuell trakassering i et lederperspektiv. Dette med hvilke ressurser ledere har og benytter ...

This thesis presents an investigation of what shapes the support for redistribution in OECD countries, in a rational choice perspective. Employing an understanding of the effect of economic inequality, first provided by ...

The overarching topic of this thesis is ethnic attitudes in view of social and economic changes, and how this is dealt with through policy measures. The reason for writing this thesis is twofold; 1) to study ethnic attitudes ...