Public Opinion and The Politics of Gambling

Bibliographic Data

ID10220722
AuthorsKathleen M Joyce, Kathleen Joyce (Center For Policy Research, corresponding author)
Year1979
Volume35
Issue3
Pages144-165
Publication date1979-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Social Issues (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-4537 • E-ISSN: 1540-4560
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1540-4560.1979.tb01050.x
OpenAlexW2126868727
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited2

This paper examines the relation between the attitudes of the public toward gambling and recent changes in gambling laws. The nineteenth century wave of antigambling sentiment found expression in many state constitutions. Consequently, legalization or decriminalization of gambling became unusually difficult among that class of activities often referred to as “victimless crimes.” Renewed interest in gambling as a revenue source, in the last few decades, has produced a number of surveys dealing with attitudes toward gambling and has required statewide votes on some 45 separate gambling items. Public attitudes are compared, along several dimensions, for results of a national survey and results of voting on particular gambling proposals. Attitudes are consistent between survey data and voting data, particularly as they pertain to administrative and regulatory form. Also, in one state, demographic variables discriminating favorability in the survey data predict voting outcome on a lottery proposal

Criminology · Decriminalization · Economics · Legalization · Lottery · Political science · Politics · Public opinion · State (computer science · Survey data collection · Voting · Gambling Behavior and Treatments · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Sports Analytics and Performance

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