Table 4.

The autonomy of the National Olympic Committees.

	Botswana	Guatemala	Sri Lanka
Domestic context and legacies	Strong government ambitions in sport policy-making	Strong legacy of sport autonomy	Strong interventionist legacy, politicization due to civil war
Formal compliance	Formal acceptance of autonomy but unclear division of responsibility between government agency and NOC	Sports autonomy adopted in constitution	Legal framework does not respect sports autonomy
Provision of public funding	Strong dependence on government funding but limited government interference in budgeting	Fixed provision of public funding specified in the constitution, autonomous budgeting by the NOC	Prioritization of financial independence in order to avoid political interference
Participation in sport policy-making	Expansion of NOC activities but limited influence due to organizational rivalries	Strong influence of NOC	Self-restraint, political interference and instrumentalization
Translation of the governance transplant	Iron out tension	Full transfer or “gold-plating”	Marginalization