%0 Journal Article
%T Quasi
%A Adrian W. Chew
%J Educational Policy
%@ 1552-3896
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0895904817719522
%X This article problematizes the lottery as a taken-for-granted concept, which is normatively understood as a neutral process rewarding its participant based on luck. The article adopts a policy problematization frame that interrogates the limits of normative concepts. To problematize the lottery system, this article engages with the two movies on school choice, The Lottery and Waiting for ˇ°Supermanˇ±, as ˇ°instancesˇ± through the conceptual lens of a quasi-market. The main argument is that the lottery is a particular discursive practice co-constituting the competitive frame of education quasi-markets. In identifying how the spirit of competitiveness underlies a competition, and by extension the lottery system, the article posits that in a competitive setting, competitors are primarily concerned with maximizing inequality among each other
%K school choice
%K quasi-market
%K policy problematization
%K competition
%K lottery
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0895904817719522