Bishop, M.L. orcid.org/0000-0001-6981-6241 and Cooper, A.F. (2018) The FIFA Scandal and the Distorted Influence of Small States. Global Governance, 24 (1). pp. 21-40. ISSN 1075-2846
Abstract
The Fédération Internationale de Football Association, the international body that governs soccer, became engulfed in a massive corruption scandal in 2015. Yet despite its global audience, financial influence, and cultural importance, the sport's governance has received little attention in political science or international studies. This article showcases how FIFA represents an important site for analyzing global governance by demonstrating how the contemporary scandal is primarily an outcome of the idiosyncratic structures of the organization itself, with a particular pattern of incentives generated for a set of actors commonly overlooked in the literature. It explains how soccer bureaucrats from smaller countries—Switzerland, Qatar, and Trinidad and Tobago are deployed as illustrations—have regularly outmaneuvered their larger and more conventionally powerful counterparts. Smallness does not, therefore, imply a lack of power within global governance: it is rather mediated by context and novel forms of agency.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 Lynne Rienner Publishers. |
Keywords: | FIFA; small states; global governance |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Politics and International Relations (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 12 Apr 2017 13:42 |
Last Modified: | 22 Feb 2018 12:26 |
Published Version: | http://journals.rienner.com/doi/abs/10.5555/1075-2... |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Lynne Rienner Publishers |
Refereed: | Yes |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:114930 |