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…mehr
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.
Kerry G.E. Chambers lectures in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Dalhousie University.
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Illustrations Tables Preface 1. The Emergence of Gambling within a Historically Contingent Framework 2. Enabling and Constraining Factors that Influence Adoption 3. The Adoption Process * Impetus for Adoption * State Influences on Adoption * Sociocultural Contexts of Adoption * The Likelihood of Adoption and Participation 4. Methodology: The Comparative Historical Approach 5. Conclusions 6. Gambling for Profit in the Welfare Regimes * Welfare Regimes in Late Modernity * Casinos in the Welfare Regimes * Gaming Machines Outside Casinos in the Welfare Regimes * Lotteries in the Welfare Regimes * Governmentality: From Protection to Risk * Conclusions 7. Casinos in Australia, Canada, and the United States 8. Impetus for Casino Adoption 9. Global Factors * National and Subnational Impetus 10. Intervening Social Factors Affecting Casino Adoption * Religion * Crime, Corruption, and Social Disorder 11. Likelihood of Adoption * Motivation and the Likelihood of Adoption * Mobilization and the Likelihood of Adoption * Governance and the Likelihood of Adoption 12. Summary 13. Casinos in Australia, Canada, and the United States * Australia * Canada * United States * Aboriginal Groups 14. Summary 15. Conclusions 16. Lotteries and Gaming Machines in Australia, Canada, and the United States 17. Gambling as a Cultural Commodity 18. Cultural Differences among Australia, Canada, and the United States * Shared Social Values and Legitimacy Building 19. Adoption of Lotteries in Australia, Canada, and the United States * Lotteries in Australia * Lotteries in Canada * Lotteries in the United States 20. Summary 21. Gaming Machines Outside Casinos 22. Adoption of GMOCs in Australia, Canada, and the United States * Gaming Machines Outside Casinos in Australia * Gaming Machines Outside Casinos in Canada * Gaming Machines Outside Casinos in the United States 23. Summary 24. Conclusions 25. Historical Contingency in Political Economic and Sociocultural Contexts * The Analytical Framework: Comparing Australia, Canada, and the United States o Impetus to Adopt o Welfare Regime/Polity/Degree of Centralization o Access to the Polity o The Sociocultural Contexts of Adoption o The Likelihood of Adoption Notes Glossary References Index
Illustrations Tables Preface 1. The Emergence of Gambling within a Historically Contingent Framework 2. Enabling and Constraining Factors that Influence Adoption 3. The Adoption Process * Impetus for Adoption * State Influences on Adoption * Sociocultural Contexts of Adoption * The Likelihood of Adoption and Participation 4. Methodology: The Comparative Historical Approach 5. Conclusions 6. Gambling for Profit in the Welfare Regimes * Welfare Regimes in Late Modernity * Casinos in the Welfare Regimes * Gaming Machines Outside Casinos in the Welfare Regimes * Lotteries in the Welfare Regimes * Governmentality: From Protection to Risk * Conclusions 7. Casinos in Australia, Canada, and the United States 8. Impetus for Casino Adoption 9. Global Factors * National and Subnational Impetus 10. Intervening Social Factors Affecting Casino Adoption * Religion * Crime, Corruption, and Social Disorder 11. Likelihood of Adoption * Motivation and the Likelihood of Adoption * Mobilization and the Likelihood of Adoption * Governance and the Likelihood of Adoption 12. Summary 13. Casinos in Australia, Canada, and the United States * Australia * Canada * United States * Aboriginal Groups 14. Summary 15. Conclusions 16. Lotteries and Gaming Machines in Australia, Canada, and the United States 17. Gambling as a Cultural Commodity 18. Cultural Differences among Australia, Canada, and the United States * Shared Social Values and Legitimacy Building 19. Adoption of Lotteries in Australia, Canada, and the United States * Lotteries in Australia * Lotteries in Canada * Lotteries in the United States 20. Summary 21. Gaming Machines Outside Casinos 22. Adoption of GMOCs in Australia, Canada, and the United States * Gaming Machines Outside Casinos in Australia * Gaming Machines Outside Casinos in Canada * Gaming Machines Outside Casinos in the United States 23. Summary 24. Conclusions 25. Historical Contingency in Political Economic and Sociocultural Contexts * The Analytical Framework: Comparing Australia, Canada, and the United States o Impetus to Adopt o Welfare Regime/Polity/Degree of Centralization o Access to the Polity o The Sociocultural Contexts of Adoption o The Likelihood of Adoption Notes Glossary References Index
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