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Gambling for profit : lotteries, gaming machines, and casinos in cross-national focus / Kerry G.E. Chambers

Chambers, Kerry, 1958-

Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, c2011

Online Ressource (xvi, 279 p.) : ill., digital file.

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index

Erscheint auch als: Chambers, Kerry G.E : Gambling for Profit : Lotteries, Gaming Machines, and Casinos in Cross-National Focus. - Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2014 (Druck-Ausgabe)

978-1-4426-9008-0 (electronic bk.); 1-4426-9008-9 (electronic bk.)

978-1-4426-4189-1 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 1-4426-4189-4 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-1-4426-6119-6 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 1-4426-6119-4 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-1-4426-4189-1 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 785802925 (aus SWB)     

Online-Ausg.

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LOC-SH: Gambling -- Cross-cultural studies ; Gambling -- Social aspects ; Gambling -- Government policy ; Gambling -- Economic aspects ; Gambling -- Cross-cultural studies ; Gambling -- Social aspects ; Gambling -- Government policy ; Gambling -- Economic aspects ; Electronic books

Electronic books / Cross-cultural studies ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Sociology ; General ; Gambling ; Gambling ; Economic aspects ; Gambling ; Government policy ; Gambling ; Social aspects ; Cross-cultural studies

"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

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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