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 -October-2023-PhD-defense-Simon-Rey
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SUMMARY:PhD defense, Simon Rey
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20231013T100000
LOCATION:Agnietenkapel, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 231,
  Amsterdam
ATTENDEE;ROLE=Promotor:Ulle Endriss
ATTENDEE;ROLE=Copromotor:Ronald de Haan, Jan Maly
DESCRIPTION:The past 40 to 50 years have seen the 
 rise of a wide range of innovative tools developed
  to deepen and renew the democratic process. One s
 uch tool is participatory budgeting (PB), which en
 compasses a large range of mechanisms that aim at 
 making budgeting decisions in a participatory and 
 collective manner. This thesis studies PB mechanis
 ms. We view them as ways of obtaining a collective
  budgeting decision. More specifically, we investi
 gate PB as a voting procedure in which citizens ar
 e asked to submit their preferences in order to de
 cide which projects should be funded, subject to a
  budget constraint. Throughout the thesis, we defi
 ne new fairness criteria to assess the outcome of 
 PB processes; we develop a novel epistemic approac
 h to PB; we present intricate ways to incorporate 
 additional constraints into the formal analysis; w
 e analyse the temporal aspects of PB; and finally,
  we study a multi-stage model. The end product cov
 ers a large diversity of implementations of PB pro
 cesses, studied from various angles. I hope that t
 his work, at its small scale, can help make better
  decisions for PB, and by that, improve the democr
 atic process at a larger scale.
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:\n  <p>The past 40 to
  50 years have seen the rise of a wide range of in
 novative tools developed to deepen and renew the d
 emocratic process. One such tool is participatory 
 budgeting (PB), which encompasses a large range of
  mechanisms that aim at making budgeting decisions
  in a participatory and collective manner. This th
 esis studies PB mechanisms. We view them as ways o
 f obtaining a collective budgeting decision. More 
 specifically, we investigate PB as a voting proced
 ure in which citizens are asked to submit their pr
 eferences in order to decide which projects should
  be funded, subject to a budget constraint. Throug
 hout the thesis, we define new fairness criteria t
 o assess the outcome of PB processes; we develop a
  novel epistemic approach to PB; we present intric
 ate ways to incorporate additional constraints int
 o the formal analysis; we analyse the temporal asp
 ects of PB; and finally, we study a multi-stage mo
 del. The end product covers a large diversity of i
 mplementations of PB processes, studied from vario
 us angles. I hope that this work, at its small sca
 le, can help make better decisions for PB, and by 
 that, improve the democratic process at a larger s
 cale.</p>\n
URL:https://www.illc.uva.nl/Research/Publications/
 Dissertations/DS/#DS-2023-09
CONTACT:Simon Rey at s.j.rey at uva.nl
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