Gambling for Profit : : Historical Contingency and Jagged Growth / / Kerry G. E. Chambers.
Over the past forty years, Western governments have increasingly liberalized and deregulated gambling, which is now used to deliver state revenues and commercial profit in many jurisdictions. Gambling for Profit is a cross-national history of the emergence of legal gambling, including lotteries, gam...
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Chambers, Kerry G. E., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Gambling for Profit : Historical Contingency and Jagged Growth / Kerry G. E. Chambers. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2017] ©2011 1 online resource (298 p.) : 3 Figures text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1. The Emergence of Gambling within a Historically Contingent Framework -- 2. Gambling for Profit in the Welfare Regimes -- 3. Casinos in Australia, Canada, and the United States -- 4. Lotteries and Gaming Machines in Australia, Canada, and the United States -- 5. Historical Contingency in Political-Economic and Sociocultural Contexts -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Over the past forty years, Western governments have increasingly liberalized and deregulated gambling, which is now used to deliver state revenues and commercial profit in many jurisdictions. Gambling for Profit is a cross-national history of the emergence of legal gambling, including lotteries, gaming machines, and casinos.Gambling for Profit is unique among studies of gambling's twentieth-century growth thanks to Kerry G.E. Chambers's strong analytical framework - investigating not only the political aspects of legalization, but also the sociocultural factors that influence popular adoption. Chambers provides a useful chronological examination of the electronic gambling phenomenon, as well as comparative data on dates of introduction and revenues across twenty-three countries. Gambling for Profit provides a dynamic model to explore the legalization of gambling and stresses the inadequacy of seeking universal explanations for gambling's entrenchment within particular cultures. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Gambling Cross-cultural studies. Gambling Economic aspects. Gambling Government policy. Gambling Social aspects. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110490954 print 9781442641891 https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442690080 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442690080 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781442690080.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1. The Emergence of Gambling within a Historically Contingent Framework -- 2. Gambling for Profit in the Welfare Regimes -- 3. Casinos in Australia, Canada, and the United States -- 4. Lotteries and Gaming Machines in Australia, Canada, and the United States -- 5. Historical Contingency in Political-Economic and Sociocultural Contexts -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- Index |
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