International Gambling Studies

International Gambling Studies is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal in gambling studies. Launched by a team of international experts with a commitment to the highest scholarly standards, International Gambling Studies adopts a transnational and comparative approach to the challenges posed by the global expansion of gambling in the 21st century.

International Gambling Studies seeks to:

• be a leading voice for analysis and research in gambling studies, presenting work on the theory, methods, practice and history of gambling;
• encourage the application of perspectives from all social sciences including sociology, psychology, anthropology, statistics, economics, education, history, law, political science, community studies, management, industrial relations, leisure and tourism studies;
• overcome the divide between the theory and empirical research;
• advance excellence in gambling studies by integrating academic and industry perspectives, encouraging comparative studies and critical analysis
• encourage articles that offer a new theoretical argument, provide new data or use an innovative methodological approach or mode of analysis;
• give theoretical and analytical expression to the intellectual and policy challenges in contemporary gambling;
• enhance the public relevance of gambling studies in the context of contemporary society and global economic development; and,
• appeal to a wide readership, while contributing to new developments at the cutting edge of theory and method, the journal will be broadly accessible to practitioners, students and policy makers.