Jusletter IT

Weighted Voting in e-Participation

  • Autor/Autorin: Cyril Velikanov
  • Kategorie: Kurzbeiträge
  • Region: Russland
  • Rechtsgebiete: E-Democracy
  • Sammlung: Tagungsband IRIS 2010
  • Zitiervorschlag: Cyril Velikanov, Weighted Voting in e-Participation, in: Jusletter IT 1. September 2010
The e-Participation paradigm assumes online deliberation around proposals and ideas put forth by participants. In a mass deliberation, it becomes of prime importance to achieve immunity against «crowd buzz», and also against both «mob attacks» and «oligarchic ruling», the resistance to which should be brought about in a most democratic way, which is to say, by participants themselves. To achieve this goal, participants in our system mutually appraise each other’s contributions, and the system assigns different weights to appraisal values assigned by different participants, as a function of how their own contributions have been appraised by others. We propose a rationale in support of such weighted voting, which establishes a kind of open dynamic hierarchy within the participants’ community, a hierarchy that is permanently redefined by participants themselves — a concept which in our view represents a mixture of the representative and of the direct versions of democracy.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

  • 1. Problems of Mass e-Participation
  • 1.1. The Right to Propose
  • 1.2. The Paradigm of e-Participation
  • 1.3. «Crowd Buzz» Problem and Stability Problem in e-Participation
  • 1.4. Weighted Voting as a Solution to the Above Problems
  • 2. Weighted Voting in an e-Participation Forum
  • 2.1. Our e-Participation Model
  • 2.2. Profile of a Participant
  • 2.3. Rating and Weight of a Participant
  • 2.4. Calculating the Weight of a Participant
  • 3. Weighted Voting in the Light of General Principles of Democracy
  • 3.1. Fairness of Weighted Voting in an e-Participation Forum
  • 3.2. Extending a forum voting into an all-public voting
  • 3.3. Extending Traditional Legislature into an Appropriately Weighted e-Participation
  • 4. Conclusion

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