Talking Like a Tax Collector or a Social Guardian? The Use of Administrative Discourse by U.S. State Lottery Agencies

Étienne Charbonneau ()
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Étienne Charbonneau: Rutgers – The State University of New Jerse

Chapter Chapter 13 in Do They Walk Like They Talk?, 2009, pp 223-240 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Aside from higher education, lotteries are probably the most important state product provided directly to the public. In the United States, revenues from lotteries finance directly one or a few socially desirable causes. Lotteries are depicted as a well-focused quest for increased revenues that also takes into account a liberal respect for consumer sovereignty. State lottery agencies have two goals: a main taxing goal and secondary societal welfare goals such as protecting compulsive gamblers and funding charitable or welfare programs. As such, lotteries are often advertised as a way to earn proceeds for some social cause (often Education). Analyzing the administrative discourse provides a window inside the balancing act of the two missions. The tax-collector/social guardian positions taken by the different U.S. state lottery agencies will be scrutinized. Efforts to understand the determinants of the ideological positions revealed by administrative discourse will be presented. In this chapter, administrative discourse will be used to estimate how state lottery agencies balance their dual missions. The results will shed light on the nature of state government and its bureaucratic apparatus.

Keywords: Annual Report; Truth Table; Qualitative Comparative Analysis; Content Analysis Method; Fiscal Stress (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-89672-4_13

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