Civicracy: Establishing a Competent and Responsible Council of Representatives Based on Liquid Democracy

Hainisch, Reinhard; Paulin, Alois

doi:10.1109/cedem.2016.27

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“…Civicracy was a system developed by Madl & Hainisch in 2012 at the Vienna University of Technology [21]. The system was born out of a research initiative and reached TRL 3-4.…”

Section: Civicracymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Another attempt was made to pilot the system at schools, but only about 20 students out of a required ca. 250 could be motivated to participate in the experiment [21].…”

Section: Civicracymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…LD as a form of voting on non-binding policies has been implemented by the German Pirate Party [2,24,26]. LD as a way to vote for members of a council of representatives was the objective behind the system Civicracy [21]. The LD system Župa aimed to serve a student union to elect its officials in a LD way, and to vote on which projects to fund [41,42].…”

Section: A Voting Mechanismmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Budgeting in a liquid democracy is featured in the proposed "Quantum Budget", a model aimed to provide public funding by means of LD [38]. Some considerations how to empower executive roles in a liquid democracy have been made in the course of the LD systems Župa [41,42] and Civicracy [21], as well as in more detail in Paulin's nonmediated governance concept [34,36,37,39], in which he describes a liquid democracy in that executive roles as well as policies are assigned by means of LD.…”

Section: A New Form Of Democracymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Slightly later LiquidFeedback [2,46] was released for use by the German Pirate Party. Several other LD initiatives emerged independently in the years that followed, such as Civicracy [21], GoogleVotes [22], or Sovereign [45].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Ten years of liquid democracy research

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2020

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Ten years have passed since in 2009 two independent technical systems pioneered liquid democracy (LD): Župa, a system developed for the Student Organisation of FIS in Slovenia, followed closely by LiquidFeedback, which served the Pirate Party in Berlin, Germany. First academic papers appeared in 2010 targeting the e-democracy research community, and later followed by researchers from artificial intelligence. This paper provides an overview of the scholarly discussions that developed in the past decade, and the technical implementations and initiatives that emerged.

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“…Civicracy was a system developed by Madl & Hainisch in 2012 at the Vienna University of Technology [21]. The system was born out of a research initiative and reached TRL 3-4.…”

Section: Civicracymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Another attempt was made to pilot the system at schools, but only about 20 students out of a required ca. 250 could be motivated to participate in the experiment [21].…”

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confidence: 99%

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2020

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Unveiling the Truth in Liquid Democracy with Misinformed Voters

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Delfaraz

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Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Liquid democracy is a voting paradigm that allows voters that are part of a social network to either vote directly or delegate their voting rights to one of their neighbors. The delegations are transitive in the sense, that a voter who decides to delegate, delegates both her own vote and the ones she has received through delegations. The additional exibility of the paradigm allows to transfer voting power towards a subset of voters ideally containing the most expert voters on the question at hand. It is thus tempting to assume that liquid democracy can lead to more accurate decisions. This claim has been investigated recently, maybe most importantly, by Kahng, Mackenzie, and Procaccia [30] and Caragiannis and Micha [10], who provide however mostly negative results using a model similar to the uncertain dichotomous choice model.In this paper, we provide new insights on this question. In particular, we investigate the so-called ODP-problem that has been formulated by Caragiannis and Micha [10]. Here, we are in a setting with two election alternatives out of which one is assumed to be correct. In ODP, the goal is to organise the delegations in the social network in order to maximize the probability that the correct alternative, referred to as ground truth, is elected. While the problem is known to be computationally hard, we strengthen existing hardness results by providing a novel strong approximation hardness result: For any positive constant 𝐶, we prove that, unless 𝑃 = 𝑁 𝑃, there is no polynomial-time algorithm for ODP that achieves an approximation guarantee of 𝛼 ≥ (ln 𝑛) −𝐶 , where 𝑛 is the number of voters. The reduction designed for this result uses poorly connected social networks in which some voters su er from misinformation. Interestingly, under some hypothesis on either the accuracies of voters or the connectivity of the network, we obtain a polynomial-time 1/2-approximation algorithm. This observation proves formally that the connectivity of the social network is a key feature for the e ciency of the liquid democracy paradigm. Lastly, we run extensive simulations and observe that simple algorithms (working either in a centralized or decentralized way) outperform direct democracy on a large class of instances. Overall, our contributions yield new insights on the question in which situations liquid democracy can be bene cial.

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Beyond Bureaucracy

Paulin¹

2017

Public Administration and Information Technology

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Civicracy: Establishing a Competent and Responsible Council of Representatives Based on Liquid Democracy

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Ten years of liquid democracy research

Ten years of liquid democracy research

Unveiling the Truth in Liquid Democracy with Misinformed Voters

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