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100			_aHerrmann, Denise K. von
245			_aThe decision to legalize gambling: a model of why states do what they do
260			_c1999
300			_ap.1659-680
362			_aNov-Dec
520			_aThis article compares the three major forms of legalized gambling currently being utilized by states as revenue measures. Unlike most of the previous gambling research, it focuses upon the choice of forms, rather than only the decision to adopt gambling measures. It compares forms of gambling using a variation on a previously published schema of evaluative criteria for revenue types and presents a series of models of why states choose to legalize certain types of gambling. The results suggest that lotteries and parimutuels are similar choices for revenue raising, since both are likely to be adopted in states which are liberal, which exhibit somewhat weak interest groups, and which have relatively low Protestant fundamentalist church membership. Casinos, however, appear to conform to a different decision model and are less likely to be operated in states with large numbers of older citizens and in states which do not already have other forms of gambling. - Reproduced
650			_aRevenue
650			_aPublic finance
650			_aGambling
773			_aInternational Journal of Public Administration
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999			_c42703 _d42703