Contribution to the handbook
Priority · Assessed 2026-10-28
The study’s proposal source and selection process raise a material agenda-setting and testing concern for systems that elicit citizen preferences: 67 proposals came from Brazucracia.org, and a lawyer led their selection and organization. The selection criteria, completeness, and fairness are not verified. This supports scrutiny of preference evidence without proving bias or unfairness.
Does this challenge the goal?
In-scope gap
Proposal provenance and selection are relevant to scrutiny of whose interests preference data may reflect, within the handbook’s existing citizen-service goal; the question does not contest that goal.
The inquiry concerns one study’s materials; the evidence does not establish that its selection process caused bias or that the materials are suitable for governance.
Why this category?
- Provenance of preference-elicitation materials
- Agenda-setting and selection uncertainty
The evidence concerns one study and identifies selection criteria and fairness as unverified; it does not show the collection was incomplete or unfair.
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Identify where the proposals were obtained and how they were selected or organized.
What we can say so far
The study used 67 proposals collected from Brazucracia.org and linked to three candidates in Brazil’s 2022 presidential election. It reports that a lawyer led their selection and organization.
What remains open
- The study text supplied does not explain the criteria used to select or organize the proposals.
Conditions and limits
- This reports the study’s account of its proposal collection and curation; the collection’s completeness and fairness are not independently verified.
Evidence and related ideas
Supporting evidence, qualifications and context play different roles in this answer.
supports
How the proposals were collected The study used 67 policy proposals collected from Brazucracia.org and linked to three candidates in Brazil’s 2022 presidential election. A lawyer led the work of selecting and organizing the proposals.
Supports the reported source, candidate links, number of proposals, and lawyer-led selection and organization.
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