Abstract
With an expenditure of about 96 billion euros in 2016, Italy is one of the world’s biggest gambling markets, where electronic gambling machines are the major source of revenue. Based on an analysis of the legislation and open-ended interviews with key informants and beneficiaries of funding from the gambling industry, the chapter analyses the gambling regulatory model and the history of Italian legislation. The aim is to shed light on the process which led to the astonishing market expansion that began in the 90s. Furthermore, it presents the positions taken by the main actors and the conflicts between them—in particular between local administrations and central government—and discusses scholars’ main counter-arguments to the legislator’s justifications.
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Rolando, S., Scavarda, A. (2018). Italian Gambling Regulation: Justifications and Counter-Arguments. In: Egerer, M., Marionneau, V., Nikkinen, J. (eds) Gambling Policies in European Welfare States . Work and Welfare in Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90620-1_3
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