Abstract

It is a general expectation that those who exercise official power requiring them to make decisions affecting members of our society will act rationally in doing so. There is a question whether consistently with that expectation and the rule of law there is room for decision-making processes which involve elements of an arbitrary nature which cannot be explained by rules of logic. A subset of the large question, which can be posed as a kind of thought experiment, is whether and to what extent official decision-making by the use of random processes such as ballots is supportable?

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