Deliberation, Social Choice, and Democratic Innovation: ENCODE Closing Conference

The ENCODE Closing Conference on Deliberation, Social Choice, and Democratic Innovation brings together the culminating research findings of a major collaborative project examining how democratic systems can be made more participatory, fair, and epistemically robust. The conference addresses both theoretical foundations and practical innovations in democratic design.

Topics include deliberative mini-publics, computational social choice, voting theory, fair representation mechanisms, digital tools for civic participation, and philosophical foundations of democratic legitimacy. Political scientists, philosophers, legal scholars, economists, and democracy practitioners will find the conference highly relevant. It serves as a landmark event for those working to connect formal theories of collective decision-making with real-world democratic reform efforts.

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