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Baiocchi, Gianpaolo; Ganuza, Ernesto

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“…At another extreme, others see PB programs as empty shells, whereby citizens are incorporated into the process with the promise of having real power but are given little actual authority (Wampler et al, 2021). The wide variation in PB's meaning around the world is best illuminated through the contrast between Gianpaolo Baiocchi and Ernesto Ganuza's assertion that PB has morphed into a "technical tool," and Nelson Dias' work, which portrays PB as a "hope for democracy" (Baiocchi & Ganuza, 2017;Dias et al, 2019). Given the diversity of program design as well as widely different interpretations of what PB programs should be and do, it is no surprise that it is somewhat difficult to create a clear, coherent image of how (or if) PB may produce change.…”

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“…National governments and international organizations have long sought to promote local-level community development to overcome "deficits" in social capital, trust, and basic service delivery (Baiocchi & Ganuza, 2017;Fox, 2015;Mansuri & Rao, 2013;Peck & Theodore, 2015). The national and international organizations provide a combination of technical expertise, additional resources, and mandates to encourage subnational governments and civil society organizations (CSOs) to adopt and support institutions that place citizens at the center of community development initiatives.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In this article, we focus on Participatory Budgeting (PB), which was originally adopted in Brazil and currently practiced in more than 11,000 cities around the world. PB is a democratic innovation designed to educate residents using a grass-roots model, engage them in policy-making processes, improve governance, accountability, and, ultimately, well-being (Abers, 2000;Baiocchi & Ganuza, 2017;Dias et al, 2019;Sintomer et al, 2013;Wampler et al, 2021). Leftist political governments and civil society activists created PB during a rejuvenation of Brazil's democracy and civil society as a way to complement representative democracy and redress its many noted inequities (Ross, 2006;Schattschneider, 1960).…”

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Participatory Budgeting and Community Development: A Global Perspective

Touchton

McNulty

Wampler

2022

American Behavioral Scientist

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Participatory budgeting (PB) is designed to leverage local knowledge about community needs and translate spending preferences into tangible community development action by giving communities control over key budgetary resources. Moreover, PB participants learn about decision-making processes in development policy and can organize to pursue their communities’ interests beyond the PB process by engaging with government and civil society. PB advocates hope that infrastructure, service delivery, and, ultimately, well-being will improve for underserved communities and groups that have been historically excluded from the perspective of representative democracy. This article presents the theoretical logic connecting PB to community development and summarizes the global evidence from studies that test the theoretical propositions above. We find evidence for PB’s impact on community development performance in several important contexts. However, we also note that many hypotheses have yet to be tested in rigorous, large-N, comparative studies. There is thus considerable room to evaluate PB’s impact in the future.

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Participatory Budgeting and Community Development: A Global Perspective

Touchton

McNulty

Wampler

2022

American Behavioral Scientist

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“…In He offers four categories of democratic innovation: popular assemblies, mini-publics, direct legislation, and e-democracy (Smith, 2009: 28-31). Baiocchi & Ganuza (2017) suggest that…”

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Justicia social, datos, justicia de datos: breves notas en conversación con Emiliano Treré y Guiomar Rovira

Roig¹

2023

COMeIN

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Durante la primera semana de marzo tuvimos la suerte de poder compartir tiempo e ideas con dos grandes figuras expertas en movimientos sociales y activismo digital: los profesores Emiliano Treré (Universidad de Cardiff) y Guiomar Rovira (Universidad de Girona). Aceptaron el reto de mantener una conversación, que resultaría apasionante, sobre justicia de datos, activismo en la era de los datos, algoritmos y la importancia de las pequeñas acciones para el cambio social, incluso ante causas aparentemente perdidas. Este es un pequeño adelanto que espero sirva a modo de inmersión en una cuestión fundamental en los complejos tiempos que vivimos.

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“…We focus our analysis of the housing commons on community land trusts (CLTs), which may be understood as part of a 'wave' of democratic innovations (Baiocchi & Ganuza, 2017) that seek to democratise politics, society and the economy (Brandsen et al, 2016). CLTs are primarily focused on ownership of land, used in different ways for community benefit, such as community agriculture (Rosenberg & Yuen, 2012).…”

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Community Control in the Housing Commons: A Conceptual Typology

Durose

Richardson²,

Rozenburg³

et al. 2021

International Journal of the Commons

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We advance theorizing on the governance of the commons through a configurative comparative analysis (CCA) of community control in the housing commons. We focus our analysis on community land trusts (CLTs), which are increasingly recognised as a potential governance mechanism for collective access to housing provision for lowincome communities. Through systematic comparative analysis of CLTs in the US and UK, we extend the existing evidence base and develop a conceptual typology of community control in the housing commons. The typology suggests that whilst some social purposes for CLTs may align with notions of the commons -enrichment of community politics, conservation of community life, or creation of participatory governance -other CLTs focus on housing provision as a means of making a broader contribution to the social economy, or as an asset-lock to enable wider provision for affordable housing. By understanding this differentiation, we challenge the assumption that design principles or governance mechanisms are sufficient for or inherently offer a singly clear route to community control, and recognise that community control is achieved through different pathways informed by the multiple configurations of dynamics between different aspects of governance, as usefully illuminated by CCA. Our approach demonstrates the value to scholarship and activism on the commons of systematic comparative analysis in order to interrogate the expansion of the commons not only in practice but in spirit.

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Popular Democracy

Cited by 95 publications

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Participatory Budgeting and Community Development: A Global Perspective

Participatory Budgeting and Community Development: A Global Perspective

Justicia social, datos, justicia de datos: breves notas en conversación con Emiliano Treré y Guiomar Rovira

Community Control in the Housing Commons: A Conceptual Typology

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