From the earliest times, people have used lotteries to make decisions--by drawing straws,
tossing coins, picking names out of hats, and so on. We use lotteries to place citizens on …

This article offers a new theory about how using lotteries to distribute scarce benefits
satisfies beneficiaries' claims. In the first section of the article I criticize John Broome's view …

Fairness is a central, but under-theorized, notion in moral and political philosophy. This
paper makes two contributions. Firstly, it criticizes Broome's seminal account of fairness in …

Se contrastan las virtudes democráticas de las elecciones populares con las del sorteo de
cargos, y se argumenta que las elecciones populares (aunque también los referéndums …

The addition of random selection to our arsenal of methods for selecting political officials
would enhance performance against norms of representative democracy. I employ historical …

Many goods are distributed by processes that involve randomness. In lotteries, randomness
is used to promote fairness. When taking social risks, randomness is a feature of the …

When there are equally strong claimants for a scarce good, lotteries are often argued to be a
fair method of allocation. This paper reproduces four of the views on the fairness of lotteries …

A decision-maker faces indeterminacy whenever she has multiple options available to her
and no reasons adequate for distinguishing between them. In effect, there is" tie." Because …

10.1 Discussion The aim of the research presented in this thesis was to contribute to the
scientific knowledge underlying the prediction of academic achievement in college …

Whenever an agent must distribute a good among parties with equally valid claims, and that
agent does not have enough of the good for all of them, justice demands that the agent …