TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stone,Peter
TI  - The luck of the draw: the role of lotteries in decision making 
SN  - 9780199895120 (ebook) :
AV  - HG6111 
U1  - 320.6 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Lotteries
KW  - Decision making
KW  - Political science
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199756100.001.0001
ER  -