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Technology-Supported Moderation in Online Deliberation
Lodewijk L. Gelauff, Ashish Goel, Sukolsak Sakshuwong
Mini-publics are an increasingly popular family of democratic innovation to broaden citizen engagement. However, convening a representative sample in person is resource-intensive,…
It Takes Three to Converse: Empirical Observations on How the Developer, the Convener and the Participant Shaped 119 Polis Conversations
Lodewijk Gelauff
Polis is a popular democratic innovation tool that allows asynchronous citizen engagement through atomic statements: short statements that together describe a complex question, inv…
Beyond Polarization: Opinion Mixing and Social Influence in Deliberation
Mohak Goyal, Lodewijk Gelauff, Naman Gupta +2
Deliberative processes are often discussed as increasing or decreasing polarization. This approach misses a different, and arguably more diagnostic, dimension of opinion change: wh…
Question the Questions: Auditing Representation in Online Deliberative Processes
Soham De, Lodewijk Gelauff, Ashish Goel +3
A central feature of many deliberative processes, such as citizens' assemblies and deliberative polls, is the opportunity for participants to engage directly with experts. While pa…
Estimating Contribution Quality in Online Deliberations Using a Large Language Model
Lodewijk Gelauff, Mohak Goyal, Bhargav Dindukurthi +2
Deliberation involves participants exchanging knowledge, arguments, and perspectives and has been shown to be effective at addressing polarization. The Stanford Online Deliberation…
Rank, Pack, or Approve: Voting Methods in Participatory Budgeting
Lodewijk Gelauff, Ashish Goel
Participatory budgeting is a popular method to engage residents in budgeting decisions by local governments. The Stanford Participatory Budgeting platform is an online platform tha…
Opinion Change or Differential Turnout: Changing Opinions on the Austin Police Department in a Budget Feedback Process
Lodewijk L. Gelauff, Ashish Goel
In 2020 the tragic murder of George Floyd at the hands of law enforcement ignited and intensified nationwide protests, demanding changes in police funding and allocation. This happ…
Fair and Inclusive Participatory Budgeting: Voter Experience with Cumulative and Quadratic Voting Interfaces
Thomas Wellings, Fatemeh Banaie Heravan, Abhinav Sharma +3
Cumulative and quadratic voting are two distributional voting methods that are expressive, promoting fairness and inclusion, particularly in the realm of participatory budgeting. D…
Robust Allocations with Diversity Constraints
Zeyu Shen, Lodewijk Gelauff, Ashish Goel +2
We consider the problem of allocating divisible items among multiple agents, and consider the setting where any agent is allowed to introduce diversity constraints on the items the…
Advertising for Demographically Fair Outcomes
Lodewijk Gelauff, Ashish Goel, Kamesh Munagala +1
Online advertising on platforms such as Google or Facebook has become an indispensable outreach tool, including for applications where it is desirable to engage different demograph…
Who is in Your Top Three? Optimizing Learning in Elections with Many Candidates
Nikhil Garg, Lodewijk Gelauff, Sukolsak Sakshuwong +1
Elections and opinion polls often have many candidates, with the aim to either rank the candidates or identify a small set of winners according to voters' preferences. In practice,…