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liquid tool
This is a simple tool I put together to test a few ideas and understand how liquid democracy works. Its freely available to anybody who wants to play around with it, or use it to demonstrate the...
View ArticleDirect democracy: Spinning its wheels?
When I first contemplated the possibility of direct democracy channeled through the internet, the idea seemed to me obviously brilliant. The old concept of direct democracy exercised by millions of...
View ArticleTowards an agent based model of democracy
Democracy as voting can be conceptualized as a social information processor, composed of a set of individual processors (the voters) and an integrator (the voting system) that together produce global...
View ArticleDemocracy, proposal elaboration and voting
The first thing we associate with democracy is voting and elections. But the democracy-as-voting picture is limited. When voting in a referendum, for example, we choose over a predefined set of...
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Liquid filtering
Over at agoravoting We have a situation where we have to collectively choose among many options, this is scaling the solution space. It is infeasible to apply voting as is, because voters cannot...
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Voter fraud and bayesian inference – part 2
We left off the discussion with We want to calculate the proportion of fake ballots in an election based on the results of limited audits. We have seen how the binomial and hypergeometric...
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The pairwise-beta model for pairwise voting
In a pairwise vote, voters are asked to repeatedly pick between pairs of options, selecting the one they favor of the two. The procedure then combines all these pairwise choices in order to establish...
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The pairwise-bradleyterry model for pairwise voting
In a previous post we discussed pairwise voting and the pairwise-beta model as a way to obtain a global ranking over candidates using bayesian inference with the beta distribution. In that post we...
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