Zero tolerance or nule efficacy? Public policies and sports regulations to fight match-fixing

Authors

  • César de Cima Iscte — Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Centro de Estudos Internacionais (CEI-Iscte) e Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia (CIES-Iscte), Lisboa, Portugal
  • Marcelo Moriconi Iscte — Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Centro de Estudos Internacionais (CEI-Iscte), Lisboa, Portugal

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7458/SPP20229924225

Keywords:

match-fixing, public policies, compliance, zero-tolerance

Abstract

Through semi-structured interviews and documentary analysis this article assesses and exposes how the “zero tolerance” policy implemented by UEFA, the European football’s governing body, is inefficient in inducing compliance in football players, at the level of match-fixing practices. The excessive emphasis on individual ethical, the externalization of the phenomenon as an organized crime problem and the reluctance to admit internal governance failures are the main explanatory reasons. The article claims that football regulation should move from a logic of compliance to enforcement politics.

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Published

2022-05-04

Issue

No. 99 (2022)

Section

Artigos

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