State Lotteries and Legalized Gambling : Painless Revenue or Painful Mirage
Richard A. Mcgowan
Bok Engelsk 1994 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Santa Barbara : : ABC-CLIO, , 1994.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (188 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Part I: Lotteries: History, Controversies, and Current State; 1. The Three Waves of Lottery Activity in the United States; 2. Lotteries and Gambling as Worldwide Phenomena; 3. The Triumph of the ""Ethics of Tolerance"": The Evolution of Lotteries in the Public Policy Process; Part II: The Strategic Management of Lotteries; 4. Lottery Games and the Various Strategies for Conducting Lotteries; 5. Lottery Sales and Other Forms of Gambling: Possible Cannibalization and Other Consequences. - 6. The Expansion of State-Sponsored Gambling Activities: The Cases of Massachusetts and PennsylvaniaPart III: The Future of Lotteries and Legalized Gambling; 7. Privatization and Other Strategic Issues Concerning the Regulation of Gambling; 8. Concluding Remarks on Lotteries and Gambling; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; W; Y. - 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-sponsore
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| ISBN | 0899308597
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