03548nam 2200685 450 991046245590332120200520144314.01-4426-9008-910.3138/9781442690080(CKB)2670000000186109(OCoLC)785802925(CaPaEBR)ebrary10541178(SSID)ssj0000622904(PQKBManifestationID)11451289(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000622904(PQKBWorkID)10647932(PQKB)10856816(CEL)439890(CaBNVSL)slc00228446(MiAaPQ)EBC3279040(MiAaPQ)EBC4672737(DE-B1597)479135(OCoLC)987934746(DE-B1597)9781442690080(Au-PeEL)EBL4672737(CaPaEBR)ebr11258391(OCoLC)958559311(EXLCZ)99267000000018610920160914h20112011 uy 0engurcn||||||a||txtccrGambling for profit lotteries, gaming machines, and casinos in cross-national focus /Kerry G.E. ChambersToronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,2011.©20111 online resource (296 p.) 1-4426-4189-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 -- IndexOver 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.GamblingCross-cultural studiesGamblingSocial aspectsGamblingGovernment policyGamblingEconomic aspectsElectronic books.GamblingGamblingSocial aspects.GamblingGovernment policy.GamblingEconomic aspects.306.4/82Chambers Kerry1958-973897MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910462455903321Gambling for profit2216480UNINA