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 …

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A lottery (or random selection) is often considered to be irrational. However, a qualified
lottery can lead to a second‐order rationality on an institutional level. The main idea is to …

While practitioners think highly of randomized studies, some philosophers argue that there is
no epistemic reason to randomize. Here I show that their arguments do not entail their …

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 …

Consider the choices those in charge of the US immigration system make when they
determine to whom to grant an immigration visa, colloquially known as a green card. How …

Human behaviour, like everything else, has causes. Most of the time, those causes can be
described as reasons. Human beings perform actions because they have reasons for …

As the focus on institutionalising deliberative democracy is moving to a focus on achieving
deliberative political systems (Chambers 2009; Thompson 2008; Dryzek 2010; Parkinson & …

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 …

This article develops the proposal that US Supreme Court Justices should be selected by
sortition. The greatest threat to the legitimacy of the Supreme Court emanates from ever …