Dear colleagues, I am currently seeking a PhD candidate for the project “Citizen-centered Democratic Innovation”. This is a 3.5-year PhD position within the interdisciplinary research project that Associate Prof. Carolina Plescia will co-lead together with a computer scientist, Jan Maly (https://janmaly.de). In this project, we aim to understand citizen preferences for the voting rules used in Participatory Budgeting and to develop algorithms respecting these preferences as much as possible. To this end, we will combine methods from political science for eliciting citizen's preferences and legitimacy concerns with methods from computer science that show which properties can actually be satisfied. The deadline for applications is 1 September 2024. Please check the job advertising for more information and feel free to get in touch with questions. https://jobs.univie.ac.at/job/PhD-position-on-Citizen-centered-Democratic-Innovation/1104491301/ Best wishes, Carolina Plescia -- Carolina Plescia Associate Professor PI ERC Starting Grant DeVOTE FWF Hertha Firnberg scholar Department of Government Kolingasse 14-16 University of Vienna 1090 Vienna, Austria Tel: +43 (0)1 4277 49904 Twitter: @carolinaplescia Website: https://www.carolinaplescia.com ERC project: https://www.votemeanings.eu