Participatory Budgeting: Data, Tools and Analysis

Participatory Budgeting: Data, Tools and Analysis

Piotr Faliszewski, Jarosław Flis, Dominik Peters, Grzegorz Pierczyński, Piotr Skowron, Dariusz Stolicki, Stanisław Szufa, Nimrod Talmon

Proceedings of the Thirty-Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Main Track. Pages 2667-2674. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2023/297

We provide a library of participatory budgeting data (Pabulib) and open source tools (Pabutools and Pabustats) for analysing this data. We analyse how the results of participatory budgeting elections would change if a different selection rule was applied. We provide evidence that the outcomes of the Method of Equal Shares would be considerably fairer than those of the Utilitarian Greedy rule that is currently in use. We also show that the division of the projects into districts and/or categories can in many cases be avoided when using proportional rules. We find that this would increase the overall utility of the voters.
Keywords:
Game Theory and Economic Paradigms: GTEP: Computational social choice