Participatory budgeting is a democratic approach to deciding the funding of public projects,
which has been adopted in many cities across the world. We present a survey of research …

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 …

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 …

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 …

We define and study a general framework for approval-based budgeting methods and
compare certain methods within this framework by their axiomatic and computational …

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 …

Participatory budgeting engages the public in the process of allocating public money to
different types of projects. PB designs differ in how voters are asked to express their …

In the late 19th century, Swedish mathematician Edvard Phragmén proposed a load-
balancing approach for selecting committees based on approval ballots. We consider three …

We provide a library of participatory budgeting data (Pabulib) and open source tools
(Pabutools and Pabustats) for analysing this data. We analyse how the results of …

In participatory budgeting, citizens are invited to vote on different projects. This paper sets
out to study the voting stage of participatory budgeting from theoretical and practical …