Abstract

This study fills a gap in gambling research by inquiring into the ways in which people make sense of their country’s gambling policy as a comprehensive logic with interrelated facets. Nineteen focus group interviews were conducted with 88 persons in Helsinki, Finland. The interview protocol involved discussion stimuli and tasks. The study participants expressed the view that the public image and function of gambling provision involves a great deal of contradictory elements. Even though the existing monopoly system was given approval in terms of yielding funding to good causes, the interviewees were still critical of how the monopoly system worked when it comes to advertising, availability, and customer loyalty programs. A core dilemma identified was whether the system aims to prevent gambling-related problems or whether it does, in fact, promote gambling consumption. If skilfully executed, the study method can be fruitful for discerning core logical inconsistencies in the gambling regulation systems of other countries as well. Resume L’etude comble une lacune dans la recherche sur les jeux de hasard en s’interrogeant sur la maniere dont les gens percoivent la politique de jeu de leur pays en tant que modele logique complet avec facettes interdependantes. On a effectue dix-neuf entrevues dans des groupes de discussion regroupant 88 personnes a Helsinki, en Finlande. Le protocole d’entrevue comportait des points de discussion et des tâches. Les participants a l’etude ont exprime l’opinion voulant que l’image publique et la fonction de l’offre de jeu comprennent beaucoup d’elements contradictoires. Meme si le systeme de monopole existant avait l’approbation du public en raison du soutien financier apporte a de bonnes causes, les personnes interrogees etaient tout de meme critiques a l’egard du monopole et de son fonctionnement en ce qui concerne la publicite, l’offre et les programmes de fidelisation des clients. On a releve un important dilemme, a savoir si le systeme visait a prevenir les problemes de jeu ou s’il favorisait en fait la consommation de jeux. Habilement appliquee, la methode d’etude peut servir a demontrer les incoherences logiques fondamentales dans les systemes de reglementation de jeux de hasard d’autres pays egalement.

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