Books in the Sortition and Public Policy series

This book is about the virtues and social justice of random distribution. This revised second edition includes a new introduction.

Thomas Gataker was a disputatious Puritan divine. His The Nature and Uses of Lotteries (1627) was the first systematic exposition of a modern view of lotteries, not just as a form of gambling, but as a fair method of division.

Two essays, printed back to back in a single volume, offer complementary solutions to the democratic deficit in Britain and the USA.