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Formal Models of Democracy, Rotterdam (The Netherlands) and/or Virtual, Deadline: 20-22 Apr 2022
Call for Abstracts: Formal Models of
Democracy<https://www.eur.nl/en/esphil/events/formal-models-democracy-2022-04-20>
@EUR, Rotterdam (April 20th ? 22nd, 2022)
The Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics (Erasmus School of
Philosophy, Erasmus University of Rotterdam) and the OZSW study group on
Social Choice and Group Dynamics are organising a graduate conference on
Formal Models of Democracy, featuring contributed talks by junior scholars
and tutorials by Hélène
Landemore<https://politicalscience.yale.edu/people/h-l-ne-landemore> (Yale
University) and Ulle Endriss<https://staff.science.uva.nl/u.endriss/>
(University of Amsterdam).
Theme of the workshop
Formal modelling (decision theory, game theory, social choice theory,
agent-based models, formal epistemology) has been and continues to be an
important source of insight for political philosophy in general, and
democratic theory in particular. Scholars such as David Miller, John
Dryzek, and Christian List have argued that democratic deliberation can
provide an escape route from Arrovian impossibility results, so that the
latter actually motivate, rather than undermine the former. Likewise,
Hélène Landemore has drawn on mathematical theorems and agent-based models
to argue against epistocracy and representative democracy, and in favour
of a lottocratic, deliberative political system. Sean Ingham has similarly
argued for the relevance of preference cycles for democratic theory, and
introduced a counterfactual account of popular control (using tools from
game theory) that can cope with such cycles.
The aim of this graduate workshop is to bring together junior scholars
working on formal models and the normative theory of democracy. We
specifically welcome contributions that combine both enterprises, or that
critically inspect the relation between them. Presentations may but need
not address one of the following questions:
* (How) can deliberation avoid or mitigate impossibilities or inconsistencies revealed by social choice theory or game theory? Does it perhaps face other, equally challenging impossibilities?
* What is the role of social choice theory in setting up procedures for deliberation or representative democracy?
* What do mathematical results on group knowledge, opinion dynamics, or collective problem solving imply for the normative theory of democracy?
* Given that deliberation is supposed to take place in small or mid-sized groups, what counts as a fair representation of citizens in deliberation?
* How do direct democracy, representative democracy, lottocracy, and epistocracy (i.e., rule by experts) perform in terms of their output? What are suitable models or setups to check epistemic norms for democracy?
We welcome contributions by graduate students and scholars who obtained
their PhD after March 1st, 2019. (The presentation may of course be based
on joint work with more senior scholars.) Depending on the number of
high-quality submissions received, these junior scholars will have between
30 and 45 minutes (including Q&A) to present their work or research
project.
Practical information:
In case you would like to present at the workshop, please send an email to
vandeputte@esphil.eur.nl<mailto:vandeputte@esphil.eur.nl> with the
following information:
* Subject of the email: ?abstract FMD workshop?
* Title of the presentation
* Short (500 words) abstract
* 5 keywords
* Your affiliation
Deadline: January 24th, 2022, 23h55 CET. We will send out the notification
of acceptance by mid-February.
If the pandemic situation does not worsen significantly, the workshop will
take place in person at Erasmus University of Rotterdam. In the other
case, we will move it to Zoom. If the workshop takes place on campus we
will look into the option of having hybrid sessions and/or contributions
via video lectures for those who cannot attend on campus.
Funding & organization: This event is organized at the Erasmus Institute
for Philosophy and Economics<https://www.eur.nl/esphil/eipe> (Erasmus
School of Philosophy, Erasmus University of Rotterdam) by Frederik Van De
Putte (EUR), Erica Yu (EUR), Måns Abrahamson (EUR), and Marina Uzunova
(Free University of Amsterdam). It is supported by the NWO-funded
ENCODE<https://www.eur.nl/en/esphil/encode> project (VI.Vidi.191.105) and
by the Erasmus School of
Philosophy<https://www.eur.nl/esphil/phd-position-full-time-4-years-formal-models-group-deliberation>.
It is also the second workshop organized by the OZSW study group on Social
Choice and Group
Dynamics<https://www.ozsw.nl/study-group/study-group-social-choice-and-group-dynamics/>.
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