LEADER 03548nam 2200685 450 001 9910462455903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4426-9008-9 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442690080 035 $a(CKB)2670000000186109 035 $a(OCoLC)785802925 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10541178 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000622904 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11451289 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000622904 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10647932 035 $a(PQKB)10856816 035 $a(CEL)439890 035 $a(CaBNVSL)slc00228446 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3279040 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4672737 035 $a(DE-B1597)479135 035 $a(OCoLC)987934746 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442690080 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4672737 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11258391 035 $a(OCoLC)958559311 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000186109 100 $a20160914h20112011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||a|| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGambling for profit $elotteries, gaming machines, and casinos in cross-national focus /$fKerry G.E. Chambers 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2011. 210 4$dİ2011 215 $a1 online resource (296 p.) 311 $a1-4426-4189-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tFigures and Tables -- $tPreface -- $tAbbreviations -- $t1. The Emergence of Gambling within a Historically Contingent Framework -- $t2. Gambling for Profit in the Welfare Regimes -- $t3. Casinos in Australia, Canada, and the United States -- $t4. Lotteries and Gaming Machines in Australia, Canada, and the United States -- $t5. Historical Contingency in Political-Economic and Sociocultural Contexts -- $tNotes -- $tGlossary -- $tReferences -- $tIndex 330 $aOver 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. 606 $aGambling$vCross-cultural studies 606 $aGambling$xSocial aspects 606 $aGambling$xGovernment policy 606 $aGambling$xEconomic aspects 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aGambling 615 0$aGambling$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aGambling$xGovernment policy. 615 0$aGambling$xEconomic aspects. 676 $a306.4/82 700 $aChambers$b Kerry$f1958-$0973897 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910462455903321 996 $aGambling for profit$92216480 997 $aUNINA