Sport Integrity: Ethics, Policy and Practice: An Introduction

Abstract

There can be little doubt that integrity in the playing and management of sport is becoming one of the critical issues in global sport and its governance. This special issue aims to contribute to the scholarship that is emerging in this important field for policy makers and managers in sport. The articles reveal the breadth of topics that are located within the scope of the term ‘integrity’, ranging from sport governance, athletes’ rights, match-fixing and sports’ organisational management practices. The approaches taken to the study of these critical issues by the authors is necessarily multidisciplinary, incorporating ethical theory, empirical studies and historical analysis that encourage an holistic understanding of the problems under investigation.

港口诚信:伦理、政策与实践:导论

毫无疑问, 体育运动和管理的完整性正成为全球体育及其管理的关键问题之一。这期特刊的目的是为体育政策制定者和管理者在这一重要领域的学术研究做出贡献。这些文章揭示了“诚信”一词所涵盖的话题的广度, 包括体育管理、运动员权利、操纵比赛和体育组织管理实践。作者对这些关键问题所采取的研究方法必然是多学科的, 结合了伦理理论、实证研究和历史分析, 以鼓励对所研究问题的整体理解。

Keywords:

• Sport
• integrity
• ethics
• policy
• governance

关键词:

• 体育
• 完整性
• 道德规范
• 政策
• 治理

Disclosure Statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Notes

1 In Europe, Swansea University has launched an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree in Sports Ethics and Integrity (http://www.maisi-project.eu/) in partnership with Charles University, Johannes Gutenberg University, Pompeu Febra University, Katholieke University of Leuven, and University of the Peloponnese. Separately, Victoria University, Australia runs a Master in Sport Business and Integrity degree.

2 ‘Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past.’ (Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte)

3 http://www.espn.co.uk/olympics/story/_/id/6768358/jacques-rogge-says-match-fixing-gambling-big-fights-sports

Additional information

Notes on contributors

Andy Harvey

Andy Harvey (Ph.D., Birkbeck, University of London, UK) is a Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Science in the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences, Swansea University UK. He has research interests in sports integrity, with a particular focus on match-fixing in football and equalities and inclusion in sport. His work has appeared in numerous journals, including the Journal of Philosophy of Sport and Sport in Society.

Mike McNamee

Mike McNamee (Ph.D., University of Leeds, UK) is Professor of Applied Ethics in the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences, Swansea University UK. He is acknowledged as one of the pioneers of the field of sports ethics. A former President of the International Association of the Philosophy of Sport, and Founding Editor of Sport Ethics and Philosophy, he has published numerous books and articles in the field, including most recently Bioethics, Genetics and Sports (Routledge, 2018).