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Voting behaviour and power in online democracy: a study of LiquidFeedback in Germany's Pirate Party

Christoph Carl Kling; Jérôme Kunegis; Heinrich Hartmann; Markus Strohmaier; Steffen Staab · Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM 2015); arXiv:1503.07723 · 2015

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Author: Christoph Carl Kling; Jérôme Kunegis; Heinrich Hartmann; Markus Strohmaier; Steffen Staab
Accessed: 2026-09-01

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EstablishedIn the German Pirate Party's LiquidFeedback data (499,009 votes on 6,517 initiatives, 2010-2013), removing delegations would have left 84.9% of outcomes unchanged; powerful delegates used their potential to reverse results in only about one in three cases.