Participatory Budgeting: Data, Tools and Analysis
Piotr Faliszewski, Jarosław Flis, Dominik Peters, Grzegorz Pierczyński, Piotr Skowron, Dariusz Stolicki, Stanisław Szufa, Nimrod Talmon
Abstract
We provide a library of participatory budgeting data (Pabulib) and open source tools (Pabutools and Pabustats) for analysing this data. We analyse how the results of participatory budgeting elections would change if a different selection rule was applied. We provide evidence that the outcomes of the Method of Equal Shares would be considerably fairer than those of the Utilitarian Greedy rule that is currently in use. We also show that the division of the projects into districts and/or categories can in many cases be avoided when using proportional rules. We find that this would increase the overall utility of the voters.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{ijcai2023p297,
title = {Participatory Budgeting: Data, Tools and Analysis},
author = {Faliszewski, Piotr and Flis, Jarosław and Peters, Dominik and Pierczyński, Grzegorz and Skowron, Piotr and Stolicki, Dariusz and Szufa, Stanisław and Talmon, Nimrod},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Thirty-Second International Joint Conference on
Artificial Intelligence, {IJCAI-23}},
publisher = {International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization},
editor = {Edith Elkind},
pages = {2667--2674},
year = {2023},
month = {8},
note = {Main Track},
doi = {10.24963/ijcai.2023/297},
url = {https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2023/297},
}