Proportional participatory budgeting with additive utilities

D Peters, G Pierczyński… - Advances in Neural …, 2021 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We study voting rules for participatory budgeting, where a group of voters collectively
decides which projects should be funded using a common budget. We allow the projects to …

The (computational) social choice take on indivisible participatory budgeting

S Rey, J Maly - arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.00621, 2023 - arxiv.org
In this survey, we review the literature investigating participatory budgeting as a social
choice problem. Participatory Budgeting (PB) is a democratic process in which citizens are …

Proportionality in approval-based participatory budgeting

M Brill, S Forster, M Lackner, J Maly… - Proceedings of the AAAI …, 2023 - ojs.aaai.org
The ability to measure the satisfaction of (groups of) voters is a crucial prerequisite for
formulating proportionality axioms in approval-based participatory budgeting elections. Two …

Robust and verifiable proportionality axioms for multiwinner voting

M Brill, J Peters - arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.01989, 2023 - arxiv.org
When selecting a subset of candidates (a so-called committee) based on the preferences of
voters, proportional representation is often a major desideratum. When going beyond …

Phragmén's voting methods and justified representation

M Brill, R Freeman, S Janson, M Lackner - Mathematical programming, 2024 - Springer
In the late 19th century, Swedish mathematician Edvard Phragmén proposed a load-
balancing approach for selecting committees based on approval ballots. We consider three …

Maxmin participatory budgeting

G Sreedurga, MR Bhardwaj, Y Narahari - arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.13923, 2022 - arxiv.org
Participatory Budgeting (PB) is a popular voting method by which a limited budget is divided
among a set of projects, based on the preferences of voters over the projects. PB is broadly …

Proportional budget allocations: Towards a systematization

M Los, Z Christoff, D Grossi - arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.12324, 2022 - arxiv.org
We contribute to the programme of lifting proportionality axioms from the multi-winner voting
setting to participatory budgeting. We define novel proportionality axioms for participatory …

Fairness in participatory budgeting via equality of resources

J Maly, S Rey, U Endriss, M Lackner - arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.07517, 2022 - arxiv.org
We introduce a family of normative principles to assess fairness in the context of
participatory budgeting. These principles are based on the fundamental idea that budget …

Approval-based committee voting in practice: a case study of (over-) representation in the Polkadot blockchain

N Boehmer, M Brill, A Cevallos, J Gehrlein… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - ojs.aaai.org
We provide the first large-scale data collection of real-world approval-based committee
elections. These elections have been conducted on the Polkadot blockchain as part of their …

Proportional Participatory Budgeting with Additive Utilities

D Peters, G Pierczyński, P Skowron - arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.13276, 2020 - arxiv.org
We study voting rules for participatory budgeting, where a group of voters collectively
decides which projects should be funded using a common budget. We allow the projects to …