http://thekaufmannpost.net/sports-threat-corruption-or-political-tool/ Transparency, corruption and governance matters, evidence-based Tue, 06 Mar 2012 18:17:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://thekaufmannpost.net/sports-threat-corruption-or-political-tool/comment-page-1/#comment-25572 Mom Fri, 01 Oct 2010 13:52:39 +0000 http://thekaufmannpost.net/sports-threat-corruption-or-political-tool/#comment-25572 In Darien CT corruption in the local youth baseball is rampant. Favoritism and reprisals. Truly unbelievable. They even supress the media from reporting the stories. In Darien CT corruption in the local youth baseball is rampant. Favoritism and reprisals. Truly unbelievable. They even supress the media from reporting the stories.

]]> http://thekaufmannpost.net/sports-threat-corruption-or-political-tool/comment-page-1/#comment-25149 Toast Fri, 24 Sep 2010 19:02:39 +0000 http://thekaufmannpost.net/sports-threat-corruption-or-political-tool/#comment-25149 Youth league sports are corrupted. Youth league sports are corrupted.

]]> http://thekaufmannpost.net/sports-threat-corruption-or-political-tool/comment-page-1/#comment-190 Prof.Dr.sc.Plamen K. Georgiev Mon, 07 Jul 2008 08:42:00 +0000 http://thekaufmannpost.net/sports-threat-corruption-or-political-tool/#comment-190 Mr.Kaufmann is hardly to be conceived as prophet in his own" village", concerning his recent scrutinies on corruption in sport. But he may wel be percieved as one on the Balkans. Most transtory countries at this side have instrumentalized sport not only as some gobal enterpreneurship. Substantial segments from the new national elite have been recruted from the sport. Sport "boys" have been politically tolerated to capture significant segments from the state and public property ( illegal or institutionally favoured privatisation). Political umbrellas are wide reaching and well linked with geostrategic interests. What is even more disturbing is that anew culture of arrogant abuse of the public sector, that has spoiled the civic climate at this side, "20 years after" the fall of the Berlin wall. Sport boys now run banks, insuranse companies, networks of drugstores, telecommunications, or whatever one may think of. They aquire own representative power and propell some obsessed competitiveness. The latter turns small family business and ordinary taxpayers to obedient "clients" of petty local oligarchs. Anticorruption systems shoud be more efficiently designed to operate in glocal and not only global terms. They have to intervene and not only manifest some rationality to less responsible governments and their coalitions. This is a huge responsibility of the democratic world and applied social research. It has to penetrate deeper into corruptive patterns of patronage that have shaped not so much some "hybrid" types of capitalisms in SE Europe. But morover errode precious values and hopes for better future of millions. As corruption gets even more sophisticated in a complex world, we may need more determined political measures to fight it sucessfully. Reducing of corruption is a condition sine qua non for proper democratic standards to be fosternd in SE Europe. The Balkans need a "second breath" of democracy. Unveiling corruption in sport might be decisive for this. Mr.Kaufmann is hardly to be conceived as prophet in his own” village”, concerning his recent scrutinies on corruption in sport. But he may wel be percieved as one on the Balkans. Most transtory countries at this side have instrumentalized sport not only as some gobal enterpreneurship. Substantial segments from the new national elite have been recruted from the sport. Sport “boys” have been politically tolerated to capture significant segments from the state and public property ( illegal or institutionally favoured privatisation). Political umbrellas are wide reaching and well linked with geostrategic interests. What is even more disturbing is that anew culture of arrogant abuse of the public sector, that has spoiled the civic climate at this side, “20 years after” the fall of the Berlin wall. Sport boys now run banks, insuranse companies, networks of drugstores, telecommunications, or whatever one may think of. They aquire own representative power and propell some obsessed competitiveness. The latter turns small family business and ordinary taxpayers to obedient “clients” of petty local oligarchs. Anticorruption systems shoud be more efficiently designed to operate in glocal and not only global terms. They have to intervene and not only manifest some rationality to less responsible governments and their coalitions. This is a huge responsibility of the democratic world and applied social research. It has to penetrate deeper into corruptive patterns of patronage that have shaped not so much some “hybrid” types of capitalisms in SE Europe. But morover errode precious values and hopes for better future of millions. As corruption gets even more sophisticated in a complex world, we may need more determined political measures to fight it sucessfully. Reducing of corruption is a condition sine qua non for proper democratic standards to be fosternd in SE Europe. The Balkans need a “second breath” of democracy. Unveiling corruption in sport might be decisive for this.

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