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The New Mathematics of Democracy
Bailey Flanigan, Ismar Volic
This article surveys emerging directions in the mathematics of democracy. It uses three case studies --- voting theory, participatory budgeting, and deliberative democracy --- to h…
The End Justifies the Mean: A Linear Ranking Rule for Proportional Sequential Decisions
Carmel Baharav, Niclas Boehmer, Bailey Flanigan +1
AI alignment and participatory design motivate a new democratic design problem: how to collectively choose a decision rule to use repeatedly. We study this problem for linear ranki…
Near-Optimal Dropout-Robust Sortition
Maya Pal Gambhir, Bailey Flanigan, Aaron Roth
Citizens' assemblies - small panels of citizens that convene to deliberate on policy issues - often face the issue of panelists dropping out at the last-minute. Without interventio…
Distortion Under Public-Spirited Voting
Bailey Flanigan, Ariel D. Procaccia, Sven Wang
A key promise of democratic voting is that, by accounting for all constituents' preferences, it produces decisions that benefit the constituency overall. It is alarming, then, that…
Smoothed Analysis of Social Choice, Revisited
Bailey Flanigan, Daniel Halpern, Alexandros Psomas
A canonical problem in social choice is how to aggregate ranked votes: given voters' rankings over candidates, what voting rule should we use to aggregate these votes i…
Neutralizing Self-Selection Bias in Sampling for Sortition
Bailey Flanigan, Paul Gölz, Anupam Gupta +1
Sortition is a political system in which decisions are made by panels of randomly selected citizens. The process for selecting a sortition panel is traditionally thought of as unif…