Globally, there has been a recent surge in 'citizens' assemblies', which are a form of civic
participation in which a panel of randomly selected constituents contributes to questions of …

Identifying successful approaches for reducing the belief and spread of online
misinformation is of great importance. Social media companies currently rely largely on …

Data-driven algorithms are studied and deployed in diverse domains to support critical
decisions, directly impacting people's well-being. As a result, a growing community of …

Sortition is a form of democracy built on random selection of representatives. Two of the key
arguments in favor of sortition are that it provides representation (a random panel reflects the …

A growing community of researchers has been investigating the equity of algorithms,
advancing the understanding of risks and opportunities of automated decision-making for …

Among the recent work on designing algorithms for selecting citizens' assembly participants,
one key property of these algorithms has not yet been studied: their manipulability. Strategic …

Sortition is an age-old democratic paradigm, widely manifested today through the random
selection of citizens' assemblies. Recently-deployed algorithms select assemblies\textit …

In computational social choice, the distortion of a voting rule quantifies the degree to which
the rule overcomes limited preference information to select a socially desirable outcome …

Citizens' assemblies are groups of randomly selected constituents who are tasked with
providing recommendations on policy questions. Assembly members form their …

Designing private voting rules is an important and pressing problem for trustworthy
democracy. In this paper, under the framework of differential privacy, we propose a novel …