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 …

For a long time, political theory frowned upon the notion of chance; political theorists and
philosophers apparently have a difficult time taming their impulse to rein in the factor of …

In recent years, democrats both inside and outside the academy have begun to reconsider
the merits of the age-old practice of sortition, the random selection of political officials …

Contrary to modern democracies ancient Athens appointed large numbers of government
officers by lot. After describing the Athenian arrangements, the paper reviews the literature …

Random selection is a fair way to break ties between applicants of equal merit seeking
admission to institutions of higher education (with “merit” defined here in terms of the …

In the recent literature across philosophy, medicine and public health policy, many influential
arguments have been put forward to support the use of randomization procedures (RAND) …

In dem Artikel wird dargelegt, dass und inwieweit der Einbau des Faktors ‚Zufall 'mit Hilfe
von Losverfahren für heutige Demokratien wieder sinnvoll ist. Losverfahren können im …

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 …

Lotteries could be a just and cost-effective procedure to distribute government benefits in
contexts of oversubscription, with the added benefit of allowing assessments of the impact of …

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 …