A participatory budgeting method developed by Barton E. Lee and co-author Haris Aziz is being used by TheDAO Security Fund to distribute 400 ETH (approx. USD 1 million at the time of writing) among competing Ethereum security initiatives. The approach builds on their paper, Proportionally Representative Participatory Budgeting with Ordinal Preferences, published in the Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence in 2021.
The 9th ETH Workshop on Democracy took place in Zurich on 8-9 June 2026. It was organized by professors from ETH Zürich and other universities, in collaboration with the CEPR.
The Political Economy and eDemocracy (PEDEM) workshop took place at ETH Zurich on 28 November 2025. We were delighted to welcome the following speakers to the workshop, which was very well received: Giovanni Andreottola, Alice Gindin and Pedro P. Pérez Velasco were the speakers.
Keywords that emerged from the research papers included rhetoric, Poe's Law, obstruction, accusations, tolerance and polarization.