Luck of the Draw The Role of Lotteries in Decision Making

Name: Luck of the Draw The Role of Lotteries in Decision Making
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ISBN: 9780199756100

ISBN-10: 0199756104

ISBN-13: 9780199756100

Edition: 2011

Authors: Peter Stone

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A prominent scholar once noted that lotteries in politics and society--to break vote ties, assign students to schools, draft people into the military, select juries--are "at first thought absurd, and at second thought obvious." Lotteries have been part of politics since the Greek and Roman times, and they are used frequently in American politics today. When there is a two-to-two vote tie for prospective school board members, officials will often resort to flipping a coin (as happened recently in California). And in military drafts, the conventional wisdom is that random selection is far more just than non-lottery drafts. Northerners rioted against the perceived injustice of the non-random…

Book details

List price: $105.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/15/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Size: 9.29" wide x 6.18" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English




The Logic of Random Selection



Why Lotteries?



The School Board Tosses a Coin



Lotteries, Lotteries Everywhere



Absurd yet Obvious



The Story So Far



The Argument to Come



What Do Lotteries Do?



What Is a Lottery?



Fundamental Features of Decision-Making



Decision-Making by Lottery



The Lottery Principle



Indeterminacy Without Lotteries



Lotteries and Divination



Lotteries and Justice



Allocative Justice



The Relationship Between Lotteries and Justice



The Just Lottery Rule



Consent, Opportunities, Expectations



Impartiality



What Does Allocative Justice Require?



Allocative Justice and Outcomes



Allocative Justice and Actions



Impartiality and Indeterminacy



The Right and the Good



The Implications of Impartiality



The Nature of the Impartiality Principle



Theories of Justice



Alternatives to Random Selection



Lotteries Beyond Justice



The Idea of Sortition



Sortition in Practice



Sortition and Justice



Incentive Alignment



Descriptive Representation



Random Selection in Other Contexts



Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index