A copy of this work was available on the public web and has been preserved in the Wayback Machine. The capture dates from 2017; you can also visit the original URL.
The file type is application/pdf
.
Playing with Fire, Competing with Spirit: Cooperation in the Sport of Ultimate
2012
Sociological spectrum
Prior research shows that third-party agents are necessary to promote cooperation when groups are large and spatially diffuse. I explore whether this proposition holds in the self-governing sport of Ultimate. While the size of the community and spatial diffusion of the sport theoretically suggests limited decentralized control, the widespread implementation of a refereed system has not yet emerged. Instead, I find with qualitative methods that cooperation in Ultimate is the result of the sport
doi:10.1080/02732173.2012.663713
fatcat:sda7chig7jcq7f7e3qgg75z7tm