Gambling for profit
Subtitle: lotteries, gaming machines, and casinos in cross-national focus
By: Kerry G.E. Chambers
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9781442641891
Subjects: Études transculturelles; Government policy; Social aspects; Aspect social; Cross-cultural studies; Politique gouvernementale; Gambling; Aspect économique; Economic aspects; Jeux de hasard
Description: "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."--pub. desc.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Emergence of Gambling within a Historically Contingent Framework; title: Gambling for Profit in the Welfare Regimes; title: Casinos in Australia, Canada, and the United States; title: Lotteries and Gaming Machines in Australia, Canada, and the United States; title: Historical Contingency in Political Economic and Sociocultural Contexts.