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Swimming with Whales: Analysis of Power Imbalances in Stake-Weighted Governance
May 19, 2026Yuzhe Zhang, Manvir Schneider, Qin Wang +1Computational Social Science
Independent researcher, Australia · Cardano Foundation, Switzerland · CSIRO, Australia +1
Linked Multi-Modal Data on Russian Domestic and Foreign Policy Speeches
May 15, 2026Daria Blinova, Gayathri Emuru, Rakesh Emuru +4Computational Social Science
University of Delaware, Department of Political Science & International Relations, Newark, DE, USA · University of Delaware, Masters of Science in Data Science Program, Newark, DE, USA · University of Pennsylvania, Department of Political Science, Philadelphia, PA, USA +1
LifeSentence: Language models can encode human life course trajectories from longitudinal panel data
May 14, 2026Samuel Liu, Muchen Xi, William Yeoh +1Computational Social Science Human Behavior Prediction
Agreement, Diversity, and Polarization Indices for Approval Elections
May 14, 2026Piotr Faliszewski, Jitka Mertlová, Krzysztof Sornat +2Social Choice Theory Computational Social Science
AGH University of Kraków, Poland · Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic · University of Geneva, Switzerland +1
Two Wrongs, No Right: Auditing Social-Desirability Bias in LLM Annotators for Computational Social Science
May 12, 2026Varun KotteSocial Bias in Language Models LLM-Assisted Annotation
Independent Researcher
Attributing Emergence in Million-Agent Systems
May 12, 2026Ling Tang, Jilin Mei, Qian Chen +6Multi-Agent LLM Systems Computational Social Science
Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory · Fudan University · Tongji University +1
Unpacking the Eye of the Beholder: Social Location, Identity, and the Moving Target of Political Perspectives
May 11, 2026Elena SirotkinaSentiment Analysis Computational Social Science
Center for Data Science New York University
The Proxy Presumption: From Semantic Embeddings to Valid Social Measures
May 8, 2026Baishi Li, Ta Yu, Kelvin J. L. Koa +1Text Embeddings Text Embedding Evaluation
National University of Singapore · Asian Institute of Digital Finance
Social Theory Should Be a Structural Prior for Agentic AI: A Formal Framework for Multi-Agent Social Systems
May 8, 2026Lynnette Hui Xian Ng, Iain J. Cruickshank, Adrian Xuan Wei Lim +1Computational Social Science Multi-Agent Systems
Carnegie Mellon University · National University of Singapore
BenCSSmark: Making the Social Sciences Count in LLM Research
May 6, 2026Arnault Chatelain, Étienne Ollion, Qianwen Guan +7LLM Evaluation Benchmark Design
CREST (École Polytechnique, ENSAE, CNRS), 5 avenue Le Chatelier, 91120 Palaiseau, France · LLF (Université Paris Cité and CNRS), UFRL Olympe de Gouges, 13 place Paul Ricoeur, 75013 Paris, France · Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, LIG, 38000 Grenoble, France +1
Graph-Augmented LLMs for Swiss MP Ideology Prediction
May 6, 2026Yifei Yuan, Luis Salamanca, Sophia Schlosser +1Knowledge Augmentation for Language Models Computational Social Science
Swiss Data Science Center, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland · Department of Political Science, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Computing Thiele Rules on Interval Elections and their Generalizations
May 4, 2026Dimitris Avramidis, Alexandra Lassota, Ulrike Schmidt-Kraepelin +1Social Choice Theory Combinatorial Optimization
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Eindhoven University of Technology Eindhoven, Netherlands · School of Computer Science, and Department of Mathematics and Statistics McGill University Montréal, Canada
Directed Social Regard: Surfacing Targeted Advocacy, Opposition, Aid, Harms, and Victimization in Online Media
May 1, 2026Scott Friedman, Ruta Wheelock, Sonja Schmer-Galunder +6Social Media Analysis Sentiment Analysis
SIFT, 319 N 1st Ave, Minneapolis, 55401, MN, USA. · Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering, University of Florida, 432 Newell Drive, Gainesville, 32611, FL, USA. · Center for Information Systems & Technology, Claremont Graduate University, 150 E 10th St., Claremont, 91711, CA, USA. +1
The $\textit{Silicon Society}$ Cookbook: Design Space of LLM-based Social Simulations
Apr 30, 2026Aurélien Bück-Kaeffer, Sneheel Sarangi, Maximilian Puelma Touzel +3Multi-Agent LLM Systems Human Behavior Simulation
McGill University · Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute · Ubisoft La Forge +2
When Roles Fail: Epistemic Constraints on Advocate Role Fidelity in LLM-Based Political Statement Analysis
Apr 29, 2026Juergen DietrichMulti-Agent LLM Systems Stance Detection
TRUST Project — democracy-intelligence.de
Nothing Deceives Like Success: Social Learning and the Illusion of Understanding in Science
Apr 29, 2026Avery W. Louis, Marina DubovaScientific Discovery Computational Social Science
Systems, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA · Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
Beyond coauthorship: semantic structure and phantom collaborators in transportation research, 1967--2025
Apr 26, 2026Seongjin ChoiLink Prediction Computational Social Science
Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geo-Engineering, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, 500 Pillsbury Dr. SE, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
Mapping the Political Discourse in the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies: A Multi-Faceted Computational Approach
Apr 23, 2026Flávio Soriano, Victoria F. Mello, Pedro B. Rigueira +4Political Discourse Analysis Computational Social Science
Computer Science Department, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Opinion polarization from compression-based decision making where agents optimize local complexity and global simplicity
Apr 20, 2026Alina Dubovskaya, David J. P. O'Sullivan, Michael QuayleOpinion Dynamics Cognitive Modeling
Centre for Social Issues Research, Department of Psychology, University of Limerick, Limerick, V94 T9PX, Ireland · Mathematics Applications Consortium for Science and Industry (MACSI), Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Limerick, Limerick, V94 T9PX, Ireland · Lero, the Research Ireland Centre for Software, University of Limerick, Limerick, V94 T9PX, Ireland
Mapping Election Toxicity on Social Media across Issue, Ideology, and Psychosocial Dimensions
Apr 18, 2026Lei Cao, Wen Zeng, Xinyue Wu +2Social Media Analysis Political Discourse Analysis
University of Southern California
Beyond Preset Identities: Selective Stance Accommodation and Interaction Reorganisation in Generative Agent Societies
Mar 24, 2026Hanzhong Zhang, Siyang Song, Jindong WangLarge Language Model-Based Social Simulation Multi-Agent Communication
University of Exeter Exeter, UK · William & Mary Williamsburg, VA, USA
Subjective-Graph LLM Agents for Simulating Uncertainty in Classroom Social Perception
Mar 21, 2026Jinming Yang, Xinyu Jiang, Xinshan Jiao +1Multi-Agent LLM Systems Opinion Dynamics
Complex Lab, School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China · Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong · School of Health and Medical Technology, Chengdu Neusoft University, Chengdu,2026 China
A conceptual framework for ideology in online discourse beyond the left and right
Mar 19, 2026Kenneth Joseph, Kim Williams, David LazerPolitical Discourse Analysis Computational Social Science
University at Buffalo Buffalo, NY, USA · Portland State University Portland, OR, USA · Northeastern University Boston, MA, USA
Generating consensus and dissent on massive discussion platforms with a semantic-vector model
Jan 20, 2026A. Ferrer, D. Muñoz-Jordán, A. Rivero +3Opinion Dynamics Computational Social Science
Instituto de Biocomputación y Física de Sistemas Complejos (BIFI), Universidad de Zaragoza, 50018 Zaragoza, Spain · Kampal Data Solutions, WTCZ, Avda. Maria Zambrano 31, 50018 Zaragoza, Spain · Departamento de Física Teórica, Universidad de Zaragoza, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain +2
Making Interpretable Discoveries from Unstructured Data: A High-Dimensional Multiple Hypothesis Testing Approach
Nov 3, 2025Jacob CarlsonSelective Inference Interpretable ML
Harvard University∗
Iterative Topic Taxonomy Induction with LLMs: A Case Study of Electoral Advertising
Oct 16, 2025Alexander Brady, Tunazzina IslamSocial Media Analysis Political Discourse Analysis
Department of Computer Science, ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · Department of Computer Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
RooseBERT: A New Deal For Political Language Modelling
Aug 5, 2025Deborah Dore, Elena Cabrio, Serena VillataLanguage Model Pretraining Argument Mining
Universit´e Cˆote d’Azur CNRS, INRIA, I3S Sophia Antipolis, France
Introducing HALC: A general pipeline for the systematic and reliable construction of prompts for automated coding with LLMs in the computational social sciences
Jul 29, 2025Andreas Reich, Claudia Thoms, Tobias SchrimpfLLM Prompting LLM-Assisted Annotation
From the Fluency Fallacy to the Micro-to-Macro Validity Gap: Opportunities and Pitfalls of LLMs in Social Simulation
Jul 25, 2025Patrick Taillandier, Jean Daniel Zucker, Arnaud Grignard +4Human Behavior Simulation Computational Social Science
UR MIAT, University of Toulouse, INRAE, Castanet-Tolosan, France · UMI UMMISCO, IRD, Sorbonne University, Bondy, France · UMR IRIT, University Toulouse Capitole, Toulouse, France +2
LLM-Based Social Simulations Require a Boundary
Jun 24, 2025Zengqing Wu, Run Peng, Takayuki Ito +2LLM Evaluation Human Behavior Simulation
University of Osaka · University of Michigan · Kyoto University +1

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Swimming with Whales: Analysis of Power Imbalances in Stake-Weighted Governance

Yuzhe Zhang, Manvir Schneider, Qin Wang, Davide Grossi

Independent researcher, Australia · Cardano Foundation, Switzerland · CSIRO, Australia+1

Computational Social Science

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Voting methods weighted by stakes are the fundamental governance paradigm in Proof-of-Stake (PoS) blockchains. Such a paradigm is known to be prone to power distortions: a few users possessing large stakes may completely control decision making, even without owning the totality of the stakes. We study this phenomenon through the lens of computational social choice, focusing on the extent of power imbalances in stake-weighted voting when power is quantified using the Penrose-Banzhaf power index. Our work presents both analytical and empirical contributions. Analytically, we demonstrate that while a perfect alignment between power and relative stake ownership is generally unattainable, it can be approximated in expectation under specific conditions. Empirically, using data from a real-world on-chain governance system (Project Catalyst), we provide a more fine-grained understanding of the power imbalances that are likely to occur in current stake-weighted governance systems.