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Démocratie liquide
Publications associées (8)
How Words Move Hearts: Interpretable Machine Learning Models of Bias, Engagement, and Influence in Socio-Political Systems
We study socio-political systems in representative democracies. Motivated by problems that affect the proper functioning of the system, we build computational methods to answer research questions regarding the phenomena occurring in them. For each phenomen ...
EPFL2023Technologizing Democracy or Democratizing Technology? A Layered-Architecture Perspective on Potentials and Challenges
While technology is often claimed to be “democratizing”, the technologizing of society has more often yielded undemocratic or even anti-democratic outcomes. Is technology fundamentally at odds with democracy, or is it merely a rich and infinitely-adaptable ...
University of Chicago Press2021A Liquid Perspective on Democratic Choice
The idea of liquid democracy responds to a widely-felt desire to make democracy more "fluid" and continuously participatory. Its central premise is to enable users to employ networked technologies to control and delegate voting power, to approximate the id ...
2020Identity and Personhood in Digital Democracy: Evaluating Inclusion, Equality, Security, and Privacy in Pseudonym Parties and Other Proofs of Personhood
Digital identity seems at first like a prerequisite for digital democracy: how can we ensure “one person, one vote” online without identifying voters? But the full gamut of digital identity solutions – e.g., online ID checking, biometrics, self-sovereign i ...
2020The Next Switzerland: The Country's New Political Geography Goes Without the Röstigraben
Cultural diversity and political stability are historical trademarks of Switzerland. This paradox makes of the country a success story of modern democracies. On many social and political questions, cultural frontiers between linguistic groups have been kno ...
2016The Urban Diffusion of Local Direct Democracy between Switzerland and the United States
Thomas Charles Marie Pierre Favre-Bulle
In this chapter I expose how direct democracy instruments based on the ballot (referendum, popular initiative, recall), as opposed to assembly based direct democracy, have developed in Switzerland and have been adopted by more than 20 US states as an answe ...
Ashgate Publishing2015Direct democracy and metropolitan fragmentation in Switzerland and in California
Thomas Charles Marie Pierre Favre-Bulle
In the beginning of the 20th century, many states in the USA, and especially California among them, implemented semi-direct democracy instruments that were directly inspired by the 1848 Swiss constitution—referendum, popular initiative, recall–to fight ext ...
2013Delegative Democracy
Delegative democracy is a new paradigm for democratic organization which emphasizes individually chosen vote transfers ("delegation") over mass election. Delegative democracy combines the best elements of direct and representative democracy by replacing ar ...
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