Impolitic Gambling. Chance and Inequality in Contemporary Italy

<span class="abs_content">The liberalization of gambling is a measure equally taken and implemented by both sides with-in the bipolar system that typified Italian politics over the years 1990-2000. For 25 years, the growing number of operators, players and betting opportunities has b...

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Autor principal:	Sabino Di Chio
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Publicado:	Coordinamento SIBA 2017
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:8b24e245173f4f21b3c87c69110c085c2021-11-21T15:11:39ZImpolitic Gambling. Chance and Inequality in Contemporary Italy1972-76232035-660910.1285/i20356609v10i2p569https://doaj.org/article/8b24e245173f4f21b3c87c69110c085c2017-10-01T00:00:00Zhttp://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/paco/article/view/17737https://doaj.org/toc/1972-7623https://doaj.org/toc/2035-6609<span class="abs_content">The liberalization of gambling is a measure equally taken and implemented by both sides with-in the bipolar system that typified Italian politics over the years 1990-2000. For 25 years, the growing number of operators, players and betting opportunities has been blessed as a "necessity", a forced deci-sion that does not respect the reference values represented by the political forces that have in turn been part of the ruling majorities. The assumption of this paper is that the financial and regulatory consolidation path of the "lawful game" provides, both from the governmental and cultural viewpoint, a privileged indi-cation to describe the depoliticization of the Second Italian Republic compared to the conflict that should have raged within it as a competitive democracy. From the government viewpoint, the elected institutions renounced the political direction of the field to support the neo-liberal axioms that consider the accuracy of public accounting, the encouragement of consumption and the transfer of public assets to private capitals as three indisputable methods to pursue economic growth. From a cultural viewpoint, the silent consensus of Italian voters for gambling seems to reflect a more general consensus for the "chance" factor, the tolerance for uncertainty that deeply per-meates Italy as the other neo-capitalist societies.</span><br />Sabino Di ChioCoordinamento SIBAarticlegamblingdepoliticizationriskchance factorsecond italian republicPolitical science (General)JA1-92ENPartecipazione e Conflitto, Vol 10, Iss 2, Pp 569-588 (2017)
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description	<span class="abs_content">The liberalization of gambling is a measure equally taken and implemented by both sides with-in the bipolar system that typified Italian politics over the years 1990-2000. For 25 years, the growing number of operators, players and betting opportunities has been blessed as a "necessity", a forced deci-sion that does not respect the reference values represented by the political forces that have in turn been part of the ruling majorities. The assumption of this paper is that the financial and regulatory consolidation path of the "lawful game" provides, both from the governmental and cultural viewpoint, a privileged indi-cation to describe the depoliticization of the Second Italian Republic compared to the conflict that should have raged within it as a competitive democracy. From the government viewpoint, the elected institutions renounced the political direction of the field to support the neo-liberal axioms that consider the accuracy of public accounting, the encouragement of consumption and the transfer of public assets to private capitals as three indisputable methods to pursue economic growth. From a cultural viewpoint, the silent consensus of Italian voters for gambling seems to reflect a more general consensus for the "chance" factor, the tolerance for uncertainty that deeply per-meates Italy as the other neo-capitalist societies.</span><br />
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title	Impolitic Gambling. Chance and Inequality in Contemporary Italy
title_short	Impolitic Gambling. Chance and Inequality in Contemporary Italy
title_full	Impolitic Gambling. Chance and Inequality in Contemporary Italy
title_fullStr	Impolitic Gambling. Chance and Inequality in Contemporary Italy
title_full_unstemmed	Impolitic Gambling. Chance and Inequality in Contemporary Italy
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Impolitic Gambling. Chance and Inequality in Contemporary Italy

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