4 papers
Belief Engine: Configurable and Inspectable Stance Dynamics in Multi-Agent LLM Deliberation
Joshua C. Yang, Maurice Flechtner, Damian Dailisan +1
LLM-based agents are increasingly used to simulate deliberative interactions such as negotiation, conflict resolution, and multi-turn opinion exchange. Yet generated transcripts of…
Upgrading Democracies with Fairer Voting Methods
Evangelos Pournaras, Srijoni Majumdar, Thomas Wellings +4
Voting methods are instrumental design elements of democracies. Citizens use them to express and aggregate their preferences to reach a collective decision. However, voting outcome…
Komitee Equal Shares: Choosing Together as Voters and as Groups with a Co-designed Virtual Budget Algorithm
Joshua C. Yang, Noemi Scheurer
Public funding processes demand fairness, learning, and outcomes that participants can understand. We introduce Komitee Equal Shares, a priceable virtual-budget allocation framewor…
Bridging Voting and Deliberation with Algorithms: Field Insights from vTaiwan and Kultur Komitee
Joshua C. Yang, Fynn Bachmann
Democratic processes increasingly aim to integrate large-scale voting with face-to-face deliberation, addressing the challenge of reconciling individual preferences with collective…