Ten years have passed since in 2009 two independent technical systems pioneered liquid
democracy (LD): Župa, a system developed for the Student Organisation of FIS in Slovenia …

In the last four years, the evolution and adoption of blockchain and, more generally,
distributed ledger systems have shown the affirmation of many concepts and models with …

After an introductory section, this article will focus on four questions: How should the Kyoto
School be defined? What is meant by its central philosophical concept of “absolute …

Liquid democracy is the principle of making collective decisions by letting agents transitively
delegate their votes. Despite its significant appeal, it has become apparent that a weakness …

It is generally thought that artificial intelligence (AI) has a significant impact on politics and
democracy. Meanwhile, the technology is also often hailed a solution to key societal and …

Liquid democracy, which combines features of direct and representative democracy has
been proposed as a modern practice for collective decision making. Its advocates support …

The paper develops a theory of power for delegable proxy voting systems. We define a
power index able to measure the influence of both voters and delegators. Using this index …

Interactive Democracy is an umbrella term that encompasses a variety of approaches to
make collective decision making processes more engaging and responsive. A common goal …

In a liquid democracy, voters can either vote directly or delegate their vote to another voter of
their choice. We consider ordinal elections, and study a model of liquid democracy in which …

Liquid democracy is a proxy voting method where proxies are delegable. We propose and
study a game-theoretic model of liquid democracy to address the following question: when is …