Political clientelism in Turkish sports federations

Erturan-Ogut, E. Esra; Şahin, Mustafa

doi:10.1080/16184742.2014.950307

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“…Prior to this, the chairmen of the Turkish Sports Federations were appointed by the Director of the General Administration of Sport, with the consent of the Prime Minister. However, this change has made the sports organizations a symbolic and important democratic process, because the elected governor is granted the same rights as the government-appointed secretary-general (Erturan & Sahin, 2014). There are about 9,000 sports organizations in Turkey, including 56 autonomous federations, 4 non-self-governing organizations under the General Administration of Sports, and a fully autonomous Turkish Football Federation.…”

Section: The Laws and Acts In Turkeymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, the activities and business of the autonomous association are subject to the supervision of the relevant departments of the General Administration. Erturan and Sahin (2014) explored the political clientelism in Turkish sports federations and pointed out that the operation of the Turkish sports organizations has rooms of autonomy in the management, operational and financial levels. At the management level, the elections of sports organizations sometimes are being intervened by the government.…”

Section: The Laws and Acts In Turkeymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In addition, Erturan and Sahin (2014) found that many cities in Turkey have held sports competitions of different levels, different scales and different kinds of sports. In the course of these competitions, the distribution of political rights and financial influence are everywhere.…”

Section: The Laws and Acts In Turkeymentioning

confidence: 99%

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A Study of Sources of Law of Sports Organization Autonomy - A Cross Country Comparison Between Taiwan and Turkey

Tao-Tien¹,

Aslan²,

Hsiang-Yu³

2019

IJASOS- International E-Journal of Advances in Social Sciences

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The concept of sports governance has become more and more popular in recent years and has received considerable attention in practice and academia. From institutional theory to environmental dynamics, it is considered that the governance structure of the organization is to coordinate external pressures and interact with other organizations, regulatory environments, and systems, especially laws and regulations. The purpose of this study is to analyze the sources of law of sports organizations autonomy in Taiwan and Turkey. Turkey and Taiwan are very similar in the structure and environment of sports governance. And Turkey is better than Taiwan in terms of the competitive performs participation of international sports and the holding of mega sports events. Therefore, this research analyzed the content and changes of relevant laws and regulations of Taiwan and Turkey on the basis of document analysis and uses relevant government documents and announcements as a source of data analysis. This study found that Turkey has passed the Sports Association Autonomy Act in 2004 and many associations have completed self-government. However, there are still rooms for Turkish Sports organizations of autonomy. There are two issues of autonomy of Turkish Sports organizations, board elections and funding. Turkish Sports organizations are still highly relying on the funding of government and have the government-appointed person in the supervisory members of the association. In contrast, after the 2017 Taipei Universiade, Taiwan was under pressure from public opinion, and the government amended the National Sports Law. It stipulates that the association should have a transparent electoral system, open participation for the whole people, and amendments to the player selection system. It seems that the part of Taiwan's regulations is more perfect than the Turkish regulations and more in line with the spirit of good governance. However, such reforms are also making people worried about the government's excessive involvement in the association. Good governance is like a road without an end, and many developed countries are still moving towards this goal. Taiwan and Turkey have also undergone reforms and gradually move toward a good governance path. However, in order to achieve the goal of good governance, in addition to the improvement of the regulatory environment, what more important is the attitude of the leaders and the public to the sports organization. First of all, we must publicize the concept of good governance, and establish a sound organizational structure and organizational charter. Furthermore, through the constraints of external stakeholders, the entire sports organization network can be more stable. The fulfilment of good governance of sports can also be possible.

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Section: The Laws and Acts In Turkeymentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Laws and Acts In Turkeymentioning

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A Study of Sources of Law of Sports Organization Autonomy - A Cross Country Comparison Between Taiwan and Turkey

Tao-Tien¹,

Aslan²,

Hsiang-Yu³

2019

IJASOS- International E-Journal of Advances in Social Sciences

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“…While international criticism has expressed the ever-growing centralization and authoritarianism in the country (Kristianasen, 2015), national critiques have reported the influence of political power on ministerial units governing sports (Erturan and Imamoglu, 2011;Sahin and Imamoglu, 2011), through gaps in the relevant Act (Erturan-Ogut and Sahin, 2014). Therefore, our inferences for the senior sport leaders require further investigations of similar governance systems in other geographies before they can be generalized.…”

Section: Post Hoc Powermentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The change introduced an election-based independent management system, replacing the assignment-based fulfillment of the president position by the General Director. However, it kept the General Director as the superintendent of federations' budget (Erturan-Ogut and Sahin, 2014). This legal status of federations compares to the Spanish system where Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture, and Sport authorizes and approves by the statutes and budgets of sport federations (Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture, and Sport, 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

Exploring the emotional intelligence of leaders in governance of non-profit sports organizations: A voluntary vs. non-voluntary comparison

Özdinç¹,

Bilir

Özdinç³

2017

HumanSciences

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Research and practice have overlooked the emotional intelligence (EI) of senior leaders in nonprofit organizations. Our research aims to explore and compare the EI capacity of two groups of such leaders; voluntary (i.e., presidents of sport federations) and remunerated (i.e., provincial directors of sports), in the sport governance system of Turkey. The results of a small-scale census revealed that voluntary leaders were older, had more years of sporting experience, and achieved significantly higher EI scores than their paid counterparts. A regression analysis to examine whether age and sporting experience predicted the EI scores returned positive results for age only. A priori and post hoc power analyses assured that results had sufficient power for practically meaningful implications (.95 and .85, respectively). These results suggest that sports-governing non-profit organizations can benefit from some EI training for the development of their leaders, including those younger and with limited sporting experience. We discuss the implications of our findings within the metamorphosis of sports governing bodies from a non-profit organization to a more business-like entity.

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Social Innovation and Challenges in Youth-Based Sport Practices: An Analysis of State-Led Programs

Açıkgöz

Haudenhuyse

Tinaz

2021

Social Innovation in Sport

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Political clientelism in Turkish sports federations

Cited by 14 publications

References 12 publications

A Study of Sources of Law of Sports Organization Autonomy - A Cross Country Comparison Between Taiwan and Turkey

A Study of Sources of Law of Sports Organization Autonomy - A Cross Country Comparison Between Taiwan and Turkey

Exploring the emotional intelligence of leaders in governance of non-profit sports organizations: A voluntary vs. non-voluntary comparison

Social Innovation and Challenges in Youth-Based Sport Practices: An Analysis of State-Led Programs

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