TY  - JOUR
AB  - Although the heavily expanded technocratic doping test system has failed to detect the most spectacular cases of performance enhancement and to eradicate doping as social problem, it enjoys social fact quality. Research presented here argues that the taken-for-granted character of the technocratic test system represents a prime example of institutional work. The technocratic test system became institutionalized and maintained because the agendas of field actors converged around a field frame, enjoying cultural resonance and, at first, strong pragmatic viability. The specific methods of frame stabilization employed by actors interested in institutional maintenance served to stabilize unrealistic policy expectations. The article aims to support these ideas by analyzing the trajectory of antidoping in the International Olympic Committee (IOC) based on rich archival sources.
AU  - Meier, Henk Erik
AU  - Reinold, Marcel
DA  - 2018-04-01
DO  - 10.1177/2158244018780954
KW  - field frames
KW  - institutional work
KW  - doping
KW  - International Olympic Committee
KW  - technocratic approach
LA  - eng
N1  - Sage Open 8 (2018) 2, 1-17
N1  - Finanziert durch den Open-Access-Publikationsfonds 2018 der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) und der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster (WWU Münster).
PY  - 2018-04-01
TI  - Immunizing Inefficient Field Frames for Mitigating Social Problems: The Institutional Work Behind the Technocratic Antidoping System
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:6-15149463097
Y2  - 2024-12-26T20:26:22
ER  -