Bibliometric review of participatory budgeting: Current status and future research agenda

M Milosavljević, Ž Spasenić, J Krivokapić - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Participatory budgeting has been advocated as an advanced tool of civic participation and a
travelling innovation for more than three decades. This paper provides a bibliometric review …

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 …

Designing digital voting systems for citizens: Achieving fairness and legitimacy in participatory budgeting

JC Yang, CI Hausladen, D Peters… - … : Research and Practice, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Participatory Budgeting (PB) has evolved into a key democratic instrument for resource
allocation in cities. Enabled by digital platforms, cities now have the opportunity to let …

Evaluation of project performance in participatory budgeting

N Boehmer, P Faliszewski, Ł Janeczko… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
We study ways of evaluating the performance of losing projects in participatory budgeting
(PB) elections by seeking actions that would have led to their victory. We focus on lowering …

Rank, pack, or approve: Voting methods in participatory budgeting

L Gelauff, A Goel - Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference …, 2024 - ojs.aaai.org
Participatory budgeting is a popular method to engage residents in budgeting decisions by
local governments. The AnonPB Platform is an online platform that has been used to …

Exploring legitimacy in a municipal budget decision in Switzerland: empirical insights into citizens' perceptions

R Hänggli Fricker, T Wellings, F Zai… - Philosophical …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
This study examines legitimacy in municipal budgeting decisions, focusing on input,
throughput and output dimensions. Using data from four Swiss studies, we explore how …

Detecting and taking Project Interactions into account in Participatory Budgeting

M Durand, F Pascual - arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.19194, 2024 - arxiv.org
The aim of this paper is to introduce models and algorithms for the Participatory Budgeting
problem when projects can interact with each other. In this problem, the objective is to select …

Sequential Payment Rules: Approximately Fair Budget Divisions via Simple Spending Dynamics

H Aziz, P Lederer, X Lu, M Suzuki, J Vollen - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
In approval-based budget division, a budget needs to be distributed to some candidates
based on the voters' approval ballots over these candidates. In the pursuit of simple, well …

Guide to Numerical Experiments on Elections in Computational Social Choice

N Boehmer, P Faliszewski, Ł Janeczko… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
We analyze how numerical experiments regarding elections were conducted within the
computational social choice literature (focusing on papers published in the IJCAI, AAAI, and …

Designing Digital Voting Systems for Citizens: Achieving Fairness and Legitimacy in Digital Participatory Budgeting

JC Yang, CI Hausladen, D Peters, E Pournaras… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Digital Participatory Budgeting (PB) has become a key democratic tool for resource
allocation in cities. Enabled by digital platforms, new voting input formats and aggregation …