Deliberative capital: recognition in participatory budgeting

Holdo, Markus

doi:10.1080/19460171.2015.1077718

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“…Studies document targeted efforts to include marginalized groups in the PB process (Augsberger, Collins, Gecker, Lusk, et al., ; Holdo, ); however, important structural barriers remain. Hayduk, Hackett, and Folla () studied New York City's PB process and found a lack of translation services, difficulty creating safe spaces for undocumented immigrants, and an inability to tackle larger issues facing immigrants as significant barriers.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“We make a direct impact on people's lives”: Youth empowerment in the context of a youth‐led participatory budgeting project

Augsberger

Gecker

Collins

2018

Journal Community Psychology

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Participatory budgeting [PB] is a democratic process whereby community members determine how to spend governmental funds. Youth‐led PB is relatively new, occurring in select U.S. cities. During youth‐led PB, youth collect ideas, develop proposals, and advertise community improvement projects for which they, citywide, cast deciding votes. The study examined opportunities for the empowerment youth at each stage of a youth‐led PB project. Data collection included individual interviews with 31 youths and adult stakeholders, 3 focus groups with youths, and 7 observations of meetings. The data were analyzed using consensual qualitative research methods. Findings align well with the psychological empowerment literature and demonstrate several opportunities for empowerment throughout the PB project, including feeling in charge of the process, understanding and allocating resources, and influencing positive community change. Findings also demonstrate potential barriers to empowerment, including understanding bureaucratic decision making, and influencing policy. PB is relevant to furthering our understanding of the empowerment of youth. The youths who participated in the present study expressed feelings of competence, purpose, and an ability to use the skills learned to engage fellow youths in the PB process. Additional empirical research is needed to examine the dimensions of empowerment at each stage of the PB process.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“We make a direct impact on people's lives”: Youth empowerment in the context of a youth‐led participatory budgeting project

Augsberger

Gecker

Collins

2018

Journal Community Psychology

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“…We recognize the rich literature on participatory governance and deliberation positing that managerial confidence can be instrumental to public participation (Fung and Wright 2001;Holdo 2016b). But upon close examination, this line of research diverges from ours in several important ways.…”

Section: Orc and Citizen Participationmentioning

confidence: 71%

Tension in democratic administration: Does managerial confidence in administrative capacity reduce citizen participation in organizational decision‐making?

Zhang

Stritch

Welch

2020

Public Administration

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The tension between bureaucratic and democratic values has characterized significant debates in the field of public administration. In this article, we ask, does public managers' confidence in their organizational administrative capacity affect citizen participation? Using managerial confidence in organizational response capacity (ORC) during crises as a vehicle to investigate the tension between democratic and administrative values, we examine whether an administration‐centric approach to management influences citizen participation. We posit that higher levels of managerial confidence in organizational administrative capacity can lessen the pressure from political stakeholders which, in turn, might allow managers the autonomy to isolate themselves from the general public. The empirical analysis uses a structural equation model (SEM) to examine survey data from senior managers in 500 US cities. We find that managerial confidence in ORC reduces citizen participation, but only indirectly through diminishing influence from other governmental actors or by allowing managers to win the trust of political principals.

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“…Holdo () presents yet another concept of deliberative capital to deal with the deficiency of the deliberation problem in PB. Here, DP offers a concrete method to develop deliberative capital through a set of deliberative designs including balanced briefing materials that are provided to participants, plenary sessions and small‐group discussions, and the active role of facilitators.…”

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“…The survey result confirmed a high level of deliberation in both groups. More than 85% of participants felt their small‐group moderator led their “group members to consider opposing arguments.” In addition, 87% of participants agreed that “group members who had different views from you often have their own rational reasons.” The Zeguo experiment clearly demonstrates that deliberation is capable of cultivating citizen's deliberative capacities (He, ; Holdo, ).…”

Section: The Combination Of Pb and Dp In Zeguomentioning

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Deliberative participatory budgeting: A case study of Zeguo Town in China

2019

Public Admin & Development

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The search for a better practice instrument of civic engagement has led to participatory budgeting and deliberative polling in recent years. Participatory budgeting stresses empowerment and citizens' struggle against the establishment and unequal social structures, whereas deliberative polling works within the system and focuses on improving democratic decision-making processes by applying credible social science methods. Often, these two processes are presented as being in conflict with each other, which is to the detriment of the search for best practice in deliberative governance. This paper develops a theoretical analysis of deliberative participatory budgeting which is distinguished from unrepresentative and non-deliberative but self-selected participatory budgeting; that is, it considers how the quality of participatory budgeting can be improved through deliberative polling. This theoretical analysis is backed by an empirical study of deliberative participatory budgeting in ZeguoTownship, Zhejiang Province, China. It explores whether, how, and under what conditions it is possible to combine deliberative polling and participatory budgeting. It details four experiments and assesses the successes, failures, limitations, and problems of the experiments. The case of Zeguo offers scholars, activists, and officials lessons about how to pursue best deliberative practice in both authoritarian states and democratic societies.

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Deliberative capital: recognition in participatory budgeting

Cited by 26 publications

References 28 publications

“We make a direct impact on people's lives”: Youth empowerment in the context of a youth‐led participatory budgeting project

“We make a direct impact on people's lives”: Youth empowerment in the context of a youth‐led participatory budgeting project

Tension in democratic administration: Does managerial confidence in administrative capacity reduce citizen participation in organizational decision‐making?

Deliberative participatory budgeting: A case study of Zeguo Town in China

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