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Leaders or villains? The role of corruption in shaping the stereotypes of polit...
Ascenso, I.; Ramos, M. R.; Moriconi, M.; Marques, S.The ways in which politicians are stereotyped contribute to perceptions of the legitimacy of their power, status and leadership. In this research, we examined how corruption impacts the stereotypes of politicians. By examining stereotype content, we posited that corruption should elicit morality-related traits, while in contexts of no corruption, both morality and competence should emerge as key dimensions. Wit...
The show can go on! The non-existent effect of corruption in fandom (evidence f...
Moriconi, M.; Calca, P.; Seixas, C.One of the key premises of the official sports integrity narrative is that the perception of widespread of corruption in sports leads to a decline in people’s interest in sports and to the consequent cultural and financial collapse of the sector. With evidence gathered through a representative survey conducted in Portugal, this article proves this premise to be inaccurate. Despite football being commonly percei...
Sports integrities: A conceptual and methodological framework for analysis and ...
McNamee, M.; Moriconi, M.Since the manipulation of sport competitions became one of the main threats to sport integrity, both the academy and international organizations have sought to establish a coherent conceptual framework that defines what criteria determine a manipulation and what are the factors that might cause it. Although the literature has shown that the manipulation of sport competition is a multifaceted phenomenon that inc...
Del deporte a la ceguera ideológica: Las trampas comunicativas y conceptuales d...
Moriconi, M.Desde que algunos países del golfo pérsico comenzaron a utilizar al deporte como herramienta de desarrollo, a invertir con éxito en el sector, y a conseguir los derechos para organizar competiciones internacionales, la prensa anglosajona comenzó a analizar la situación como casos de sportswashing, concepto que, posteriormente, fue incorporado a la literatura científica. De acuerdo con esta palabra, diversas aut...
From transgression to decriminalization: A path to promote legitimacy, inclusio...
Moriconi, M.Despite the extensive literature developed and published in recent decades on the causes of crime in Latin America and its solutions, data show that crime is consolidating and growing in the region. This essay warns that one of the crucial errors in much of that literature is the confusion between means and ends. Crime, like democracy, is a means to an end, and rather than good or bad, means are either effectiv...
Interacciones narco-culturales en comunidades indígenas del Chaco Paraguayo: Re...
Peris, C.-A.; Moriconi, M.Introducción: aunque el narcotráfico ha sido una práctica histórica en el Chaco Paraguayo, las dinámicas sociales cambiaron en los últimos años, generando un orden social híbrido en el que los rectores del narco habrían ganado poder, los grupos indígenas habrían quedado desprotegidos y a merced de los traficantes, y la política se habría desentendido de la comunidad y liberaría zonas para facilitar y proteger e...
Current political uses of sport revised: Beyond public diplomacy and sportswashing
Costa, R.; Moriconi, M.The successful emergence of the Gulf states as central players in the global sporting ecosystem has revived the intellectual debate on the political and diplomatic use of sport. In the last decade, the amount of research on the topic have radically increase. The old narrative traditions explaining sport diplomacy have recently been joined by a new set of literature about the concept of sportswashing, which ques...
Cultivating cannabis in a Paraguayan nature reserve: Incentives and moral justi...
Moriconi, M.; Aníbal Peris, C.Paraguay has become the main cannabis producer in South America and one of the largest exporters in the world. Some investigations about the cultivation of marijuana in the country portray a cruel environment in which peasants are exploited in “almost feudal” conditions by intermediaries who buy their crops at unreasonably low prices. However, a group of peasants who use the Mbaracayú Forest Nature Reserve as t...
Sportswashing: Jornalismo restritivo e geopolítica da incoerência
Moriconi, M.O sportswashing tornou-se um conceito popular quando se analisa a utilização política do desporto. Em 2021, sportswashing foi escolhida como a palavra do ano pelo Conselho Norueguês da Língua (Elsborg 2022). De acordo com esta instituição, a lavagem de imagem através do desporto ocorre "quando os governos de países autoritários utilizam grandes eventos desportivos para se mostrarem melhor ou quando tentam fazer...
Deconstructing sportswashing: Analytical concept or ideological prejudice?
Moriconi, M.Sportswashing has become a fashionable concept when discussing the use of sport for political purposes, especially in the anglophone media. Its fame led to the Norwegian Language Board choosing sportswashing as word of the year in 2021. In 2022, the term increased in popularity as did its presence in public discourse, especially with the holding of the FIFA World Cup in Qatar. It even reached the social science...