State Lotteries And Legalized Gambling

Author : Richard McGowan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1994-10-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780313035692

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State Lotteries and Legalized Gambling by Richard McGowan Pdf

Lotteries and state-sponsored gambling is big business. This is the first study that evaluates the business strategies of state lotteries on two fronts. First, it examines which of the lottery strategies produces the most consistent source of revenue for the state. Second, it analyzes possible overall gambling strategies that states will need to utilize as they seek to expand gambling revenue. This is must reading for those operating lotteries, state legislators, vendors to state lottery commissions, taxpayers, and scholars in public policy and government. The whole question of state-sponsored gambling is explored, integrating both the business and policy strategies of operating a state lottery. Initially, gambling and lotteries were introduced into the public policy process in times of social unrest, brought on by the outbreak of war. Since regular sources of governmental revenue were diverted to the war effort, proceeds from gambling activites were used to finance the building of roads, canals, and schools. An Ethics of Tolerance also had to evolve in order to engender the public's acceptance of lotteries and gambling. Today, states are using gambling revenues to support education, public transportation, and aid to local towns and cities. Hence, gambling revenues must be maintained or increased. States now must decide whether they should introduce other gambling initiatives, possibly cannibalizing their existing activities in the process. The basic question, of whether it is actually possible for a state to establish an overall gambling strategy, is explored by an analysis of the gambling policies of Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. The future of gambling in the United States, as states move beyond lotteries to sanctioning casino gambling by private entrepreneurs, concludes this most relevant and provocative book.

Author : Patrick Alan Pierce,Donald E. Miller
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 1588262685

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Gambling Politics by Patrick Alan Pierce,Donald E. Miller Pdf

Examines the dramatic growth of legal gambling in the United States--and the shifting and often contentious politics accompanying its spread.

Author : Richard McGowan
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1994-10-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010463516

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State Lotteries and Legalized Gambling by Richard McGowan Pdf

Lotteries and state-sponsored gambling is big business. This is the first study that evaluates the business strategies of state lotteries on two fronts. First, it examines which of the lottery strategies produces the most consistent source of revenue for the state. Second, it analyzes possible overall gambling strategies that states will need to utilize as they seek to expand gambling revenue. This is must reading for those operating lotteries, state legislators, vendors to state lottery commissions, taxpayers, and scholars in public policy and government. The whole question of state-sponsored gambling is explored, integrating both the business and policy strategies of operating a state lottery. Initially, gambling and lotteries were introduced into the public policy process in times of social unrest, brought on by the outbreak of war. Since regular sources of governmental revenue were diverted to the war effort, proceeds from gambling activites were used to finance the building of roads, canals, and schools. An Ethics of Tolerance also had to evolve in order to engender the public's acceptance of lotteries and gambling. Today, states are using gambling revenues to support education, public transportation, and aid to local towns and cities. Hence, gambling revenues must be maintained or increased. States now must decide whether they should introduce other gambling initiatives, possibly cannibalizing their existing activities in the process. The basic question, of whether it is actually possible for a state to establish an overall gambling strategy, is explored by an analysis of the gambling policies of Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. The future of gambling in the United States, as states move beyond lotteries to sanctioning casino gambling by private entrepreneurs, concludes this most relevant and provocative book.

Author : David Weinstein,Lillian Deitch
Publisher : New York : Praeger
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037159386

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The Impact of Legalized Gambling by David Weinstein,Lillian Deitch Pdf

Author : Rod L. Evans,Mark Hance
Publisher : Open Court Publishing
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 081269354X

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Legalized Gambling by Rod L. Evans,Mark Hance Pdf

Forty-eight states now permit legalized gambling in some form, thirty-seven states run lotteries, forty-seven allow bingo houses, and more than a dozen states permit betting on dog races. American gamblers wager over $300 billion yearly in legal gambling. Although many Americans enjoy gambling and see it as harmless recreation and a fairly painless way to generate revenue without levying direct taxes, many social conservatives see gambling as a socially destructive temptation that ought notto be indulged by private citizens, much less sponsored by government. Recently, economic pressures resulting from less federal revenue and Americans' growing aversion to tax increases have led many state governments to liberalize gambling laws or sponsor gambling, sparking a lively debate. Legalized Gambling contains twenty articles focusing on different aspects of gambling policy by experts in the fields of public policy, law, psychiatry, rhetoric, religion, economics, and politics. The contributors address all areas of the debate, including the following: -- What moral issues are at the center of the debate? -- What are the true economic costs and benefits of legalized gambling? How are they often hidden or misconstrued in order to support either prohibition or legalization? -- How has the history of gambling in America shaped our current policies? -- Is governmental regulation an invasion of personal privacy? -- What are the legitimate uses of laws? -- Is "pathological gambling" a justifiable medical diagnosis? -- Do gambling establishments run by Native Americans deserve special consideration or regulation? "(In a lottery) ... the tax is laid on the willing only, that is to say, on those who can risk the price of a ticket without sensible injury for the possibility of a higher prize". -- Thomas Jefferson

Author : Earleen H. Cook
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Gambling
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038882242

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Legalized Gambling And/or Lotteries as a Revenue Source by Earleen H. Cook Pdf

Author : United States. Commission on the Review of the National Policy Toward Gambling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Gambling
ISBN : UOM:39015005902955

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Gambling in America by United States. Commission on the Review of the National Policy Toward Gambling Pdf

Author : Jonathan D. Cohen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0197604919

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For a Dollar and a Dream by Jonathan D. Cohen Pdf

Author : I. Vell Truehart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Lotteries
ISBN : MINN:31951D03584934J

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Legalized Lotteries in Several States by I. Vell Truehart Pdf

Author : Kerry Chambers
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781442641891

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Gambling for Profit by Kerry Chambers Pdf

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.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights, and Trademarks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : LOC:00101201582

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Prohibiting State-sanctioned Sports Gambling by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Patents, Copyrights, and Trademarks Pdf

Author : United States. Commission on the Review of the National Policy Toward Gambling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1112 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Gambling
ISBN : MINN:31951D029448032

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Gambling in America by United States. Commission on the Review of the National Policy Toward Gambling Pdf

Author : Charles T. Clotfelter,Philip J. Cook
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0674800982

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Selling Hope by Charles T. Clotfelter,Philip J. Cook Pdf

With its huge jackpots and heartwarming rags-to-riches stories, the lottery has become the hope and dream of millions of Americans--and the fastest-growing source of state revenue. Despite its popularity, however, there remains much controversy over whether this is an appropriate business for state government and, if so, how this business should be conducted.

Author : James Cosgrave,Thomas Klassen
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442692237

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Casino State by James Cosgrave,Thomas Klassen Pdf

While there has been an unprecedented explosion of legalized gambling in Canada - particularly in the form of casinos and electronic games - the public has become increasingly aware of addictions to gambling. Casino State is a timely collection that examines the controversial role of the state as a promoter of gambling activities often against the best interest of its citizens. Investigating the tensions that arise from the relationships between gambling and morality, risk, social policy, crime, and youth problem gambling, these essays draw upon a range of disciplines to consider the economic benefits and social costs of legalized gambling. A contemporary study that raises important questions about state conduct, precarious policy issues, public health, and addictions, Casino State provides a necessary and comprehensive overview of the central issues related to the legalization and expansion of gambling in Canada.

Author : Michael Nelson,John Lyman Mason
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0807132543

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How the South Joined the Gambling Nation by Michael Nelson,John Lyman Mason Pdf

A national map of legalized gambling from 1963 would show one state, Nevada, with casino gambling and no states with lotteries. Today's map shows eleven commercial casino states, most of them along the Mississippi River, forty-two states with state-owned lotteries, and racetrack betting, slot-machine parlors, charitable bingo, and Native American gambling halls flourishing throughout the nation. For the past twenty years, the South has wrestled with gambling issues. In How the South Joined the Gambling Nation, Michael Nelson and John Lyman Mason examine how modern southern state governments have decided whether to adopt or prohibit casinos and lotteries. Nelson and Mason point out that although the South participated fully in past gambling eras, it is the last region to join the modern movement embracing legalized gambling. Despite the prevalence of wistful, romantic images of gambling on southern riverboats, the politically and religiously conservative ideology of the modern South makes it difficult for states to toss their chips into the pot. The authors tell the story of the arrival or rejection of legalized gambling in seven southern states -- Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, South Carolina, Georgia, Arkansas, and Alabama. The authors suggest that some states chose to legalize gambling based on the examples of other nearby states, as when Mississippi casinos spurred casino legalization in Louisiana and the Georgia lottery inspired lottery campaigns in neighboring South Carolina, Alabama, and Tennessee. Also important was the influence of Democratic policy entrepreneurs, such as Zell Miller in Georgia, Don Siegelman in Alabama, and Edwin Edwards in Louisiana, who wanted to sell the idea of gambling in order to sell themselves to voters. At the same time, each state had its own idiosyncrasies, such as certain provisions of their state constitutions weighing heavily as a factor. Nelson and Mason show that the story of gambling's spread in the South exemplifies the process of state policy innovation. In exploring how southern states have weighed the moral and economic risk of legalizing gambling, especially the political controversies that surround these discussions, Nelson and Mason employ a suspenseful, fast-paced narrative that echoes the oftentimes hurried decisions made by state legislators. Although each of these seven states fought a unique battle over gambling, taken together, these case studies help tell the larger story of how the South -- sometimes reluctantly, sometimes enthusiastically -- decided to join the gambling nation.