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View this email in a browser Play the Game Newsletter 13 December 2019 Play the Game seeks governance researcher   Play the Game/the Danish Institute for Sports Studies is recruiting an academic researcher who will contribute to developing the professional profile of the institute and strengthening our international leadership role within the governance of sport. Read more NOlympics Anywhere: A transnational movement to stop the Olympic Games is gathering strength   Photo: NOlympics LA At the start of 2019, it was fair to say there was no single transnational anti-mega-event movement. In a matter of months, this changed as anti-Olympics organisers from Rio de Janeiro, Pyeongchang and Seoul, Tokyo, Paris, and Los Angeles came together in Tokyo in July with the goal of solidifying their transnational connections into an active movement against the Olympic Games. Read the analysis by Cerianne Robertson More – not less – democracy is often better for organising a World Cup   Photo: Kremlin.ru Analysis: In 2013, then-FIFA Secretary General Jérôme Valcke stated that "less democracy is sometimes better for organising a World Cup". He reasoned that a "strong head of state" reduces organisational costs. Economist Matthias Fett looks at the numbers and tests this hypothesis. Read the analysis by Matthias Fett Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Share Tweet Share Forward Play the Game 2019 E-mail addresses on our mailing list come from personal contacts, published lists or through subscription requests made via our homepage. Frederiksgade 78B, 2. sal DK-8000 Aarhus C www.playthegame.org    Unsubscribe    Update subscription