Bingo in England and Wales, Canada and Brazil
The Full House project, funded by the ESRC and led by the University of Kent, used legal and political economic perspectives to produce an international analysis of the regulation of bingo. Using four case studies of bingo regulation (England and Wales; Canada; Brazil; and online play offered to residents of EU countries), the research shifted attention to the under-explored area of bingo as a site of gendered gambling behavior and regulatory challenge.
The study explored the resilience of gendered and class-based gambling cultures, as well as the ways in which it is enmeshed with law and political economy.
It aimed to:
- provide a systematic account of how bingo is regulated, to ascertain the key legal and policy challenges involved, and
- advance knowledge of a key site in global gambling liberalization debates, one which allows us to explore how the governance of risk and speculation are gendered, and related to concerns about charity and welfare.