The Missing Feedback Loop: A Systematic Review of Governance Learning in Public Sport Service Provision — Data and Analysis Code
Year: 2026
Type: dataset
Abstract: Data and analysis code supporting a systematic review of governance learning in public sport service provision. The review analyses 210 English-language articles indexed in Scopus between 1987 and 2025, combining bibliometric mapping with qualitative thematic synthesis. The central finding is a negative one: of the 93 abstracts that engage governance or policy explicitly, none engages accountability, feedback, adaptive governance, policy feedback, or institutional learning. Claims of that shape stand or fall on how the absence was measured, so everything needed to audit the measurement is deposited here — the term patterns, the record identifiers, the screening decisions with reasons, and the scripts that produce every reported figure. Bibliographic records retrieved from Scopus are licensed to subscribers by Elsevier and are not redistributed. Deposited instead are the Scopus EIDs and DOIs for every record at every retrieval stage, together with a script that reconstructs the analysis corpus from a reader's own export. Readers without Scopus access can still verify the keyword frequencies, the co-occurrence edge list, the community assignments, the 200-seed partition stability record, and the full vocabulary matrix, all supplied as plain CSV. Contents: analysis scripts (Python 3.12), derived datasets, the complete screening record for all 359 screened records, the search protocol, and the four figures. See README.md for the file-by-file description and reproduction instructions.
Institution: Sultan Idris Education University
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7204642430