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Informationen zum Autor Michael Nelson is Fulmer Professor of Political Science at Rhodes College, in Memphis, Tennessee. A former editor of the Washington Monthly, he has published twenty-two books, including The American Presidency: Origins and Development, 1776--2007 and Presidents, Politics, and Policy. More than fifty of his magazine and journal articles have been reprinted in anthologies of political science, history, sports, and English composition.John Lyman Mason is former assistant professor of political science at Rhodes College and presently Vice President of Strategic Marketing, Central Area, for Pulte Homes. He and Nelson are the coauthors of Governing Gambling: Politics and Policy in State, Tribe, and Nation. Klappentext 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.
