Enabling the Digital Democratic Revival: A Research Program for Digital Democracy

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2401.16863v1
• Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2024 10:12:49 GMT
• Title: Enabling the Digital Democratic Revival: A Research Program for Digital Democracy
• Authors: Davide Grossi, Ulrike Hahn, Michael M\"as, Andreas Nitsche, Jan Behrens, Niclas Boehmer, Markus Brill, Ulle Endriss, Umberto Grandi, Adrian Haret, Jobst Heitzig, Nicolien Janssens, Catholijn M. Jonker, Marijn A. Keijzer, Axel Kistner, Martin Lackner, Alexandra Lieben, Anna Mikhaylovskaya, Pradeep K. Murukannaiah, Carlo Proietti, Manon Revel, \'Elise Roum\'eas, Ehud Shapiro, Gogulapati Sreedurga, Bj\"orn Swierczek, Nimrod Talmon, Paolo Turrini, Zoi Terzopoulou, Frederik Van De Putte
• Abstract summary: This white paper outlines a long-term scientific vision for the development of digital-democracy technology. It arose from the Lorentz Center Workshop on Algorithmic Technology for Democracy'' (Leiden, October 2022)
• Score: 68.02254954746476
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: This white paper outlines a long-term scientific vision for the development of digital-democracy technology. We contend that if digital democracy is to meet the ambition of enabling a participatory renewal in our societies, then a comprehensive multi-methods research effort is required that could, over the years, support its development in a democratically principled, empirically and computationally informed way. The paper is co-authored by an international and interdisciplinary team of researchers and arose from the Lorentz Center Workshop on ``Algorithmic Technology for Democracy'' (Leiden, October 2022).

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