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United for Change: Deliberative Coalition Formation to Change the Status Quo

Edith Elkind, Davide Grossi, Ehud Shapiro, Nimrod Talmon
AAAI 2021 pp. 5339-5346
doi:10.1609/AAAI.V35I6.16673 /aaai/2021/elkind2021aaai-united/

Abstract

We study a setting in which a community wishes to identify a strongly supported proposal from a large space of alternatives, in order to change the status quo. We describe a deliberation process in which agents dynamically form coalitions around proposals that they prefer over the status quo. We formulate conditions on the space of proposals and on the ways in which coalitions are formed that guarantee deliberation to succeed, that is, to terminate by identifying a proposal with the largest possible support. Our results provide theoretical foundations for the analysis of deliberative processes in systems for democratic deliberation support, such as, e.g., LiquidFeedback or Polis.

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Elkind et al. "United for Change: Deliberative Coalition Formation to Change the Status Quo." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2021. doi:10.1609/AAAI.V35I6.16673

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[Elkind et al. "United for Change: Deliberative Coalition Formation to Change the Status Quo." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2021.](https://mlanthology.org/aaai/2021/elkind2021aaai-united/) doi:10.1609/AAAI.V35I6.16673

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@inproceedings{elkind2021aaai-united,
  title     = {{United for Change: Deliberative Coalition Formation to Change the Status Quo}},
  author    = {Elkind, Edith and Grossi, Davide and Shapiro, Ehud and Talmon, Nimrod},
  booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  year      = {2021},
  pages     = {5339-5346},
  doi       = {10.1609/AAAI.V35I6.16673},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/aaai/2021/elkind2021aaai-united/}
}