The Federation Internationale de Football Association, the international body that governs soccer, became engulfed in a massive corruption scandal in 2015. Yet despite its global audience, financial influence, and cultural importance, the sport's governance has received little attention in political science or international studies. This article showcases how FIFA represents an important site for analyzing global governance by demonstrating how the contemporary scandal is primarily an outcome of the idiosyncratic structures of the organization itself, with a particular pattern of incentives generated for a set of actors commonly overlooked in the literature. It explains how soccer bureaucrats from smaller countries—Switzerland, Qatar, and Trinidad and Tobago are deployed as illustrations—have regularly outmaneuvered their larger and more conventionally powerful counterparts. Smallness does not, therefore, imply a lack of power within global governance: it is rather mediated by context and novel forms of a...

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国际足联丑闻与小国扭曲影响

管理足球的国际机构国际足球协会联合会在 2015 年卷入了一场大规模的腐败丑闻。 然而，尽管它具有全球受众、金融影响力和文化重要性，但这项运动的治理在政治学或国际研究中却很少受到关注. 本文展示了国际足联如何代表分析全球治理的重要场所，通过展示当代丑闻如何主要是组织本身的特殊结构的结果，以及为文献中通常被忽视的一组参与者产生的特定激励模式。它解释了来自较小国家——瑞士、卡塔尔、和特立尼达和多巴哥被部署为插图——它们经常在策略上胜过更大、更传统的强大对手。因此，小规模并不意味着在全球治理中缺乏权力：它是由环境和新形式的……