Successful Elite Sport Policies: An International Comparison of Elite Sport Policies in 15 Nations (SPLISS 2.0)

Background: The notion of a 'global sporting arms race' (De Bosscher et al., 2008; Green & Oakley, 2001) is based on a growing awareness by nations that sporting success can be produced by investing strategically in elite sport, whereby nations are searching for effective solutions to gain a competitive advantage in elite sport. Consequently, governments increasingly choose to intervene directly in elite sport by providing considerable amounts of public funding, thus leading to the increasing institutionalisation of elite sport systems (e.g., Digel et al., 2006; Houlihan & Green, 2008).