Differences in national identity, violence and conflict in international sport tournaments: hic sunt leones!

Title: Differences in national identity, violence and conflict in international sport tournaments: hic sunt leones!
Creator: Caruso, Raul; Di Domizio, Marco; Savage, David A.
Relation: Kyklos Vol. 70, Issue 4, p. 511-545
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/kykl.12147
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2017
Description: This work examines the relationship between national identity and conflict during international sporting tournaments and the impact of referees as an institutional countermeasure. The empirical analysis covers the FIFA World, Confederations and Under 20's World Cups and Olympic tournaments from 1994 to 2014, resulting in 1152 individual matches. We use the issuing of cards (red and yellow) and the number of sanctions (fouls) as a conflict proxy, plus macro-level national identity markers to determine between team variations. Our results indicate that national identity is robustly significant in the prediction of conflict, whereas the match-specific variables seem to be of less importance. Additionally, we observe that referees are a highly successful control of on-field aggression.
Subject: national identity; violence; conflict; sport
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1351513
Identifier: uon:30723
Identifier: ISSN:0023-5962
Language: eng
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