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Gambling for Profit : Historical Contingency and Jagged Growth / Kerry G. E. Chambers.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (298 p.) : 3 FiguresContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781442641891
  • 9781442690080
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.482
LOC classification:
  • HV6710 .C436 2011
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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