1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910480845703321

Autore

Manwaring Rob

Titolo

The search for democratic renewal : The politics of consultation in Britain and Australia / / Rob Manwaring

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, England ; ; New York, New York : , : Manchester University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-84779-947-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (215 p.)

Disciplina

320.5315

Soggetti

Political participation - Australia

Political participation - Great Britain

Democracy - Australia

Democracy - Great Britain

Electronic books.

Australia Politics and government

Great Britain Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-198) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; The search for democratic renewal; Contents; List of Figures and tables; Acknowledgements; 1 Labour in flux; 2 Labour, democratic renewal and the New Social Democracy; 3 Understanding political participation; 4 Political participation: continuity and change; 5 New Social Democratic governments in Britain and Australia; 6 National conversations; 7 Engagement at the regional level; 8 Beyond the glittering facade; References; Index



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910956993303321

Titolo

Routledge international handbook of Internet gambling / / edited by Robert J. Williams, Robert T. Wood and Jonathan Parke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

0-203-81457-6

1-283-86263-8

1-136-70813-8

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (401 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ParkeJonathan

WilliamsRobert J

WoodRobert T. <1972->

Disciplina

795.0285/4678

Soggetti

Internet gambling

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

History, current worldwide situation, and concerns with internet gambling / Robert J. Williams, Robert T. Wood, and Jonathan Parke -- Online gambling : an economics perspective / David Forrest -- The internet gambling industry / Lorien Pilling and Warwick Bartlett -- Business models for online gambling / Melody Morgan-Busher -- Regulation and reputation : the Gibraltar approach / Natalia Zborowska, Sytze F. Kingma and Phill Brear -- The Casino City study : a large scale international study of online gamblers / Robert T. Wood and Robert J. Williams -- Internet poker in Sweden in 2007 / Jakob Jonsson -- The eCOGRA global online gambler report / Jonathan Parke ... [et al.] -- The bwin.party Division on Addictions Research Collaborative : challenges for the 'normal science' of internet gambling / Debi A. LaPlante ... [et al.] -- Online gambling among youth : cause for concern? / Mark Griffiths, Jeffrey L. Derevensky, and Jonathan Parke -- The relationship between internet gambling and problem gambling / Robert T. Wood, Robert J. Williams, and Jonathan Parke -- Investigating the heterogeneity of problem gambling symptoms in internet gamblers / Joanne Lloyd ... [et al.] -- Internet gambling, player protection, and social responsibility / Mark D. Griffiths -- Online clinical support for



people with gambling problems / Sally Gainsbury and Richard Wood -- Internet gambling law / I. Nelson Rose -- Internet gambling policy in Europe / George Häberling -- The only thing certain is uncertainty? : internet gambling in the United States, 1961-2011 / Bo J. Bernhard and Andrew Montgomery -- Internet gambling and the Kahnawà:ke First Nation / Yale D. Belanger -- Internet gambling and online crime / John L. McMullan and Aunshul Rege -- Policy options for internet gambling / Robert J. Williams, Robert T. Wood, and Jonathan Parke.

Sommario/riassunto

Internet gambling is a rapidly growing phenomenon, which has profound social, psychological, economic, political, and policy implications. Until recently, Internet gambling has been understudied by the research community, but now a growing body of literature is emerging, on all aspects of Internet gambling and its attendant implications.As jurisdictions around the world grapple to understand the best way to respond to Internet gambling from a commercial, regulatory, and social perspective, scholarly studies of Internet gambling are becoming an ever more crucial resource. The <