The luck of the draw : the role of lotteries in decision-making /
A prominent scholar once noted that lotteries in politics & society--to break vote ties, assign students to schools, draft people into the military, select juries--are 'at first thought absurd, & at second thought obvious.' Lotteries have been part of politics since the Greek &...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | A prominent scholar once noted that lotteries in politics & society--to break vote ties, assign students to schools, draft people into the military, select juries--are 'at first thought absurd, & at second thought obvious.' Lotteries have been part of politics since the Greek & Roman times, & they are used widely in American politics today. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 195 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199842445 0199842442 9780199895120 0199895120 9786613096418 6613096415 |