Participatory Budgeting in Europe

Sintomer, Yves; Röcke, Anja; Herzberg, Carsten

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“…SAIs are designed to move beyond the 'usual suspects' (more highly educated and wealthier individuals are more likely to participate) as well as to dampen the likelihood of elite capture (Verba et al 1995;Fox 2015). Expanding participation in formal policy-making venues thus enables citizens and organised groups to move beyond the election cycle to engage each other, civil servants and elected officials in ongoing policy-making processes (Shah 2007;Baiocchi et al 2011;Sintomer et al 2013). There is a greater likelihood that the SAI will begin to address representative democracy's bias in favour of better educated, wealthier and better organised communities when participation includes individuals and groups from traditionally marginalised groups (Schattschneider 1960;Ross 2006).…”

Section: Designing Democratic Institutionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Brazilian PB is often lauded as a model for participatory governance and social accountability worldwide (Shah 2007;Sintomer et al 2013;Porto 2016). Very briefly, PB programmes focus much of citizen-participants' attention on the formulation stage of the policy and budgetary cycle; (the following description is based on the 'Porto Alegre Model').…”

Section: Participatory Budgetingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Briefly, PB is a democratic, incremental policy-making institution in which citizens are directly involved in deciding how local governments spend their resources (Abers 2000;Sintomer et al 2013;Baiocchi & Ganuza 2017). Citizens have the opportunity to attend a series of meetings in which they first deliberate and then vote on which policy projects or social programmes the local governments will implement.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The expectation, among participants and government officials, is that the direct involvement of citizens from poor communities will result in policy changes that will improve these individuals' lives. PB started in Brazil in the late 1980s and has now been adopted by at least 3,000 municipalities across six continents (Sintomer et al 2013).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Designing institutions to improve well‐being: Participation, deliberation and institutionalisation

Wampler

Touchton

2018

European J Political Res

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Social accountability institutions are at the forefront of democratic reformers’ efforts to improve well‐being by harnessing the power of citizen participation. This article builds on recent research identifying a positive relationship between participatory budgeting (PB) and well‐being. The article is the first large‐N study to identify relationships between specific rules of PB programme design and well‐being. A unique dataset of 114 Brazilian municipalities with PB programmes from 2009 to 2016 is constructed to evaluate whether internal mechanisms within PB explain variation in local infant mortality rates – an outcome associated with wellbeing. Hypotheses are tested that correspond to citizen participation, the scope of deliberation and embeddedness within local institutions. It is found that PB programmes are associated with lower infant mortality rates when they broaden participation, expand deliberation and embed the new institutions in ongoing policy‐making venues. The results offer a framework for designing PB programmes and other social accountability institutions to maximise impact.

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Section: Designing Democratic Institutionsmentioning

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Section: Participatory Budgetingmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Wampler

Touchton

2018

European J Political Res

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“…The third example relates to the "active citizenship" initiatives as they are emerging in Italy, characterised by their being informal, autonomous, oriented to policies and not politics (nor elections), and for the primacy of making as opposed to demanding (Moro, 2012(Moro, , 2015(Moro, , 2016. The fourth example is "participatory budgeting", as developed in Porto Alegre, Brazil since the 1980s and now spread to thousands of cities around the world (Santos, 1998(Santos, , 2005bSintomer et al, 2012;Sintomer, Herzberg and Allegretti, 2013;Allegretti, 2014;Dias, 2014).…”

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Democratisation beyond the Crisis of Liberalism, Bringing Civil Society within the State

Gianolla¹

2017

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Philosophers, sociologists and political scientists may analyse political crises by looking at the relationship between the liberal and democratic pillars of liberal-democratic regimes. Social questioning of representation (abstention, apathy and protest) is a democratic response to the failure of the liberal pillar to democratise access to political power, therefore, the crisis of liberalism. M. K. Gandhi developed an alternative theory based on intercultural perspectives and on local, ethical communities. Through Boaventura de Sousa Santos’ “epistemologies of the South”, this article analyses how Gandhi’s work can be mobilised to foster democratisation theory. The study contends that to overcome the crises, democratisation of the liberal pillar is both paramount and achievable with a new interplay of the state and civil society.

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Governance matters. Fieldwork on participatory budgeting, voting, and development from Campania, Italy

Gatto

Sadik‐Zada

2021

Journal of Public Affairs

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On the wave of the success of the participatory budgeting (PB) implemented in Porto Alegre, Brazil, a number of administrations around the world jumpstarted new forms of nonfinancial balance reporting. This trend was supported by an increasing consensus from the international community. PB aims to enhance mutual trust between the different social stakeholders and foster public administrations transparency. For this reason, PB is recognized as an effective tool for facilitating good governance, sustainability, and development. Previous field research does not highlight local voting and corruption figures. To shed light on these variables throughout a case study, this article makes use of original mixed methods techniques to analyze the PB experience of a municipality in Southern Italy. The combination of data regarding census, voting shares, and projects' features is a methodological innovation, used here for the first time. Fieldwork has been conducted to collect both quantitative and qualitative data. These data were employed along with official demographics statistics to inspect existing public management and development dynamics. Four distinct data sources, intersecting population and voting data through the PB tool were examined. After mainstreaming PB, referring to the world's benchmark of Porto Alegre, this article investigates the good practice of Casamarciano, Campania. Evidence shows compelling features from the local experience and encouraging involvement of the community, rating the poll participation even greater than Porto Alegre engagement. The qualitative data pinpoints the local administration's management choices—noteworthy, the town's PB model—and the innovation behind the public management strategies. These outcomes may help to better understand PB dynamics, yielding improved local development and sustainability indications for public affairs governance.

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Participatory Budgeting in Europe

Cited by 83 publications

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Designing institutions to improve well‐being: Participation, deliberation and institutionalisation

Designing institutions to improve well‐being: Participation, deliberation and institutionalisation

Democratisation beyond the Crisis of Liberalism, Bringing Civil Society within the State

Governance matters. Fieldwork on participatory budgeting, voting, and development from Campania, Italy

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