How the South joined the gambling nation the politics of state policy innovation / [electronic resource] :
Michael Nelson and John Lyman Mason ; with a foreword by Theodore J. Lowi.
- Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2007.
- xiv, 263 p.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-251) and index.
Introduction: the South joins the gambling nation -- Mississippi: casinos come south -- Georgia: politics and hope -- South Carolina: "we just luuuvv South Carolinians playing our lottery" -- Alabama: the governor, the churches, and the "sin legislator" -- Tennessee: "let the people decide" -- Arkansas: politics gets wacky -- Louisiana: the place where "gaming" isn't "gambling" -- Conclusion: why the South joined the gambling nation.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Gambling--Southern States. Gambling--Government policy--Southern States.