Participatory Budgeting

Many cities all over the world are allocating part of their budget using public votes. For background see book chapter by Aziz and Shah.

We study better ways to elicit and aggregate voters’ preferences.

  • Distribution Aggregation via Continuous Thiele’s Rules.
    Jonathan Wagner and Reshef Meir. MPref@ECAI’24. [Arxiv]
  • Proportional Participatory Budgeting with Projects Interaction.
    Roy Fairstein, Reshef Meir and Kobi Gal. MPref@ECAI’24. [Full version]
  • Strategy-proof Budgeting via a VCG-like Mechanism. Jonathan Wagner and Reshef Meir. SAGT 2023. [Arxiv]
  • Welfare vs. Representation in Participatory Budgeting. Roy Fairstein, Reshef Meir, and Kobi Gal. AAMAS’21. [Arxiv]