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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…
Internal Pluralism and the Limits of Pairwise Comparisons
Bailey Flanigan, Michelle Si
Local pairwise comparisons are a standard tool for learning how people want decision rules to work, e.g., in participatory design or alignment. However, their use builds in two str…
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…
Strategic Candidacy in Generative AI Arenas
Chris Hays, Rachel Li, Bailey Flanigan +1
AI arenas, which rank generative models from pairwise preferences of users, are a popular method for measuring the relative performance of models in the course of their organic use…