Two decades of youth sport policy research: an augmented scoping review and synthesis

Figures & data

Table 1. Scale and scope of researched youth sport policies.

Focus of Policies		Policy Ownership		Research Scale		Country / Region		Publication Years
Broader sport policy/governance	13	Governmental Institutions		Global	3	European countries		2000-2005	7
Community-based participation	14	United Nations Institutions	2	International, non-comparative	3	United Kingdom (inc home nations)	22	2006-2010	12
High performance sport & events	12	Continental Institutions (i.e. EU)	2	Comparative International	7	Norway	7	2011-2015	23
School sport & physical activity	32	National Governments	41	Single country	56	Others	14	2016-2020	29
Welfare & Safeguarding	14	Sub-National governments	16	Non-specific	2	North America
		Sporting Federations /Institutions/Governing bodies				United States of America	13
		International federations	3			Canada (inc Quebec)	7
		National Sport Council / National Olympic Committee	11			Australasia
		National Sports Organisations (NSOs) / National Governing Bodies of Sport (NGBs)	4			Australia	5
						New Zealand	4
		Other forms of national bodies for sport	3			Asia (total)	3
		Sub-national NSOs/NGBs	2			Africa (total)	1

Table 2. Features of youth sport policy research articles.

Author & Year	Policy Focus Category^1	Explicit use of theory	Named theory used^2	Methodological Orientation			Methods & Data
				Empirical		Analytic Commentary & Position Paper	Documents	Interviews	Survey	Secondary Data	Other
				Qual. Methods	Quant. Methods
Bjørndal et al. (2017)	HPS&E	✓	‘Ecology of Games’ theory	✓			✓	✓
Brackenridge (2004)	BSP&G; W&S					✓
Brown and Connolly (2010)	HPS&E			✓			✓
Brown (2015)	HPS&E; SS&PA					✓
Burceson et al. (2003)	SS&PA				✓				✓
Chalip and Hutchinson (2017)	C-BP			✓							Observations Action research
Chalip and Philip Scott (2005)	C-BP			✓			✓	✓			Observations
Chepyator-Thomson (2014)	SS&PA					✓
Collins et al. (2012)	C-BP; HPS&E					✓
Cooper et al. (2016)	SS&PA					✓
De Knop and De Martelaer (2001)	BSP&G; C-BP	✓	van Bottenburg's Theoretical Quality Model	✓			✓
Devine (2018)	C-BP	✓	Critical feminist political and economic theory	✓			✓
Donnelly et al. (2016)	W&S				✓		✓
Erwin et al. (2014)	SS&PA			✓			✓
Evans (2013)	SS&PA					✓
Flintoff (2008)	SS&PA			✓			✓	✓
Fry and McNeill (2011)	SS&PA					✓
Fusco (2007)	C-BP	✓	Foucault	✓			✓
Garratt et al. (2013)	W&S	✓	Foucault			✓
Gilchrist and Wheaton (2011)	C-BP			✓				✓
Girginov (2001)	BSP&G	✓	Strategic Relations Approach			✓
Green and Collins (2008)	BSP&G	✓	Institutional Path Dependency	✓			✓	✓
Green (2006)	BSP&G	✓	Bevir & Rhodes’ Interpretive Governance	✓			✓	✓
Heinze and Zdroik (2018)	SS&PA	✓	Institutional Theory	✓			✓	✓
Hernández and Pardo (2020)	SS&PA	✓	Crozier & Friedberg's Theory of Organised Action	✓				✓
Horrell et al. (2012)	SS&PA					✓
Horton et al. (2014)	SS&PA	✓	Deleuze & Guattari’s ‘schizoanalysis	✓			✓
Houlihan and Chapman (2017)	HPS&E			✓			✓	✓
Houlihan and Green (2006)	SS&PA	✓	Advocacy Coalition Framework, Multiple Streams Framework	✓			✓	✓
Houlihan (2000)	SS&PA					✓
Jette et al. (2016)	C-BP; SS&PA	✓	Foucault	✓			✓
Johnson et al. (2017)	HPS&E; SS&PA	✓	Distributive Justice Theory	✓			✓	✓
Jung et al. (2016)	SS&PA	✓	Bernstein’s ‘theory of social construction of pedagogic discourse’	✓			✓
Kårhus (2016)	HPS&E; SS&PA	✓	Bernstein’s ‘concepts of recontextualization rules and fields’	✓			✓	✓
Kerr and Kerr (2020)	W&S	✓	Bronfenbrenner’s Bioecological Systems Theory			✓
Lindsey (2020)	SS&PA	✓	Punctuated equilibrium theory	✓	✓		✓	✓
Lu and Heinze (2019)	W&S	✓	Institutional theory	✓	✓			✓		✓
Lund (2014)	SS&PA			✓			✓	✓
Marsden and Weston (2007)	SS&PA					✓
McCormack and Clayton (2017)	C-BP	✓	Bourdieu’s ‘forms of capital’	✓			✓	✓
Miah and Rich (2006)	HPS&E; W&S					✓
Parent and Hlimi (2013)	W&S			✓			✓
Penney (2008)	SS&PA					✓
Penney (2017)	SS&PA	✓	Bernstein’s ‘recontextualizing fields’ & Ball’s ‘policy enactment’			✓
Petrie and lisahunter (2011)	SS&PA					✓
Phillpots and Grix (2014)	SS&PA	✓	‘New’ Governance Theory	✓			✓	✓
Phillpots (2013)	SS&PA	✓	Advocacy Coalition Framework	✓			✓	✓
Platts and Smith (2009)	HPS&E; W&S					✓
Pope (2011)	SS&PA	✓	Murdoch’s physical education and sport interface			✓
Pope (2014)	SS&PA					✓
Pot and van Hilvoorde (2013)	SS&PA					✓
Rhind et al. (2017)	W&S			✓				✓			Interactive ‘learning sets’ and forums
Rhind et al. (2013)	W&S					✓
Riehl et al. (2019)	BSP&G; C-BP	✓	Institutional Theory	✓				✓
Sakka and Chatzigianni (2012)	BSP&G	✓	Europeanization	✓			✓	✓
Schut and Collinet (2016)	BSP&G			✓	✓		✓			✓
Shearer et al. (2018)	SS&PA			✓			✓
Shehu and Mokgwathi (2007)	BSP&G	✓	Post-structural theory	✓			✓
Skille (2004)	C-BP	✓	Bourdieu’s ‘concepts of field, habitus, practice and doxa’	✓			✓	✓			Observations
Skirstad et al. (2012)	BSP&G; C-BP;			✓			✓				Observations
Støckel et al. (2010)	C-BP; BSP&G					✓
Strittmatter (2016)	HPS&E	✓	Neo-institutional theory	✓			✓	✓			Observations
Susnara and Williams (2019)	W&S					✓
Velenczei and Gál (2011)	HPS&E			✓	✓		✓	✓	✓
Vertommen et al. (2016)	W&S					✓
Waldahl and Skille (2016)	BSP&G	✓	Corporatism & Institutional Thresholds	✓			✓	✓
Wellard and Secker (2017)	SS&PA	✓	Foucault’s ‘genealogical approach to relationships of power’			✓
White et al. (2019)	BSP&G; C-BP;	✓	Kanter’s homologous reproduction	✓			✓
Woolf and Swain (2014)	HPS&E; W&S			✓	✓				✓
Yilmaz et al. (2020)	W&S			✓			✓
Zhang and Yang (2017)	SS&PA			✓	✓		✓
Totals		32		43	8	26	37	25	3	2	5

¹ Abbreviations used in this column are: BSP&G – Broader sport policy & governance; C-BP – Community-based participation; HPS&E – High performance sport & events; SS&PA – School sport & physical activity; W&S – Welfare & Safeguarding

² The representation of theory used in articles themselves is replicated in this column.

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