Political Culture and Nevada: Reassessing the Theory – Gambling in America...
How can the culture of a people be related to policies regarding gambling? A political culture is a collective set of beliefs and values that can define how a people orient themselves toward government...
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A Reassessment of the Categorization of Nevada as an I Culture My research leads me to offer a dissent to the distinguished trio, claiming instead that Nevada represents a prototypical example of the T...
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Political Culture and Nevada: Reassessing the Theory – Gambling in America...
The Twentieth Century – Prelude to the New Gambling Era While California was establishing itself as the Golden State, Nevada was sinking constantly into disrepute. In that disrepute, however, Nevada...
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Political Culture and Nevada: Reassessing the Theory – Gambling in America...
Nevada Gambling Gambling activities persisted in early Nevada, although casinos were made illegal for a brief time after statehood was granted. By the turn of the twentieth century, however, the...
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Which Culture Is Nevada’s? These events suggest a misread of the I culture that may also have been implicit in Elazar’s placement of Nevada in the I complex. The culture is not the activity of private...
View ArticleThe Positive Case for Gambling: One Person’s View – Gambling in America
My doctoral dissertation, “The Gambling Mystique: Mythologies and Typologies”, is the first major study of the positive effects of gambling for the nonproblem gambler. Until 1973, the literature...
View ArticlePresident’s Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice –...
On 23 July 1965, Pres. Lyndon Baines Johnson issued Executive Order 11236, establishing the Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice. Atty. Gen. Nicholas Katzenbach was asked to...
View ArticlePresident’s Commission on Organized Crime – Gambling in America
On 28 July 1983, Pres. Ronald Reagan issued Executive Order 12435, creating the President’s Commission on Organized Crime under the auspices of the Federal Advisory Committee Act. The commission was...
View ArticleProfessional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992 – Gambling in America
Betting on professional sports and college sports games is very popular in the United States. There can be little doubt that tens of billions of dollars are wagered on these games each year. Most of...
View ArticlePuerto Rico Gambling in America
There are approximately fifteen casinos in Puerto Rico. The largest and most successful are in San Juan near the Condado Beach area. The casinos are all contained within hotels. Hours are restricted to...
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