Jean-Loup Chappelet

• University of Lausanne

En moins d’un siècle, d’un passe-temps réservé à quelques gentlemen amateurs en Europe, le sport est devenu un phénomène mondial qui concerne des millions d’hommes et de femmes de toutes origines, garçons et filles, sportifs de base, d’élite ou simples spectateurs. Il s’est développé grâce à des événements internationaux de plus en plus médiatisés...

This book attempts to pioneer a new field of Global Sport Administration by systematically analyzing the mechanisms of the International Olympic System from the perspective of global governance. The book is expected to be useful in the theoretical, practical, and educational dimensions. As one of the first academic book on Global Sport Administrati...

After being founded in Paris in 1894, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) moved its headquarters to Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1915. It hired its first staff member in the 1920s and continued to operate with just two or three employees until the mid-1960s, even though the Olympic Games had grown substantially. Indeed, the IOC still had only ab...

Projects to host the Olympic Winter Games have been subject to local referendums on at least 31 occasions, many more than for the summer Olympics. More than half of these referendums (18) have produced negative results, a phenomenon that has become more frequent since the turn of the twenty-first century. As a result, far fewer bids proceed to the...

Mega-events are global affairs with profound effects across a variety of scales, and are the focus of a large and growing body of academic inquiry. This special section in Sports in Society centers on the urban and economic impacts of mega-events on the societies that host them, offering an examination of individual cases and emerging patterns. The...

A country’s attractiveness is a factor in its success in many areas of international competition, such as encouraging international investment, but its impact on international sporting events remains unexplored. Using various measurements of country attractiveness, statistical tests of the proposition that a country’s economic, social, and environm...

As bidding for the rights to host sport events has become increasingly competitive, more and more countries, regions and cities have been employing public strategies and policies for promoting attractiveness of their locations to host sport events, which can be termed as ‘sport-event-hosting strategy’ (SEHS). However, from an academic standpoint, m...

Major sporting events have been growing rapidly and have become bigger and bigger. For most of the organizers and their partners the principle of "bigger is better" has become the reference to which we must strive. This paper proposes different solutions allowing sporting events to be more sustainable, particularly in terms of their ecological and...

This article statistically estimates the impact of different countries’ soft power on the results of Olympic Games bidding in the post-Cold War era. All bid results for the Olympic Summer and Winter Games between 1990 and 2011 are analyzed by panel regression methods. The empirical results reveal that sporting success, higher transparency, lower CO...

This short article gives an overview of e-government in Switzerland about 10 years after its introduction at the municipal, cantonal and federal levels. It outlines the technical and political difficulties recently encountered for the further development of online services at all levels and presents some good examples of what has been achieved so f...

Governmental reform has been on Switzerland's political agenda since the 1970s. In the 1990s, the ideas of NPM (New Public Management) spread quickly within the Swiss public sector. From the mid 1990s, the three levels of government also began experimenting with electronic government. Ten years later these experiments have matured and Switzerland i...

Esta ponencia fue presentada en el International Symposium on Olympic Villages, Museo Olímpico, Lausana, Suiza. Su objetivo es exponer la evolución histórica del concepto de villa olímpica en los Juegos de Invierno y reflexionar sobre aquello en lo que se podría convertir. Esta evolución histórica puede dividirse en tres grandes períodos en que se...