Public deliberation and social justice sensibilities in Greensboro Participatory Budgeting

Russell, Vincent; Jovanovic, Spoma

doi:10.1080/14791420.2020.1746371

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“…Studies have observed how social justice was enhanced by ensuring equitable access to the opportunity to engage in the budgeting process, which validates the important redistributive potential of PB and its capacity to foster social justice sensibilities (e.g. Avritzer, 2012;Christensen and Grant, 2016;Russell and Jovanovic, 2020). Furthermore, PB allows for the inclusion of marginalized groups (e.g.…”

Section: Social Sustainabilitymentioning

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Toward sustainable governance with participatory budgeting

Sinervo,

Bartocci,

Lehtonen

et al. 2024

JPBAFM

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PurposeSustainability is a pressing challenge of governance and public financial management. One key element of sustainable governance is the role of citizens. Participatory budgeting (PB) is a participatory tool with which citizens can influence public administration. PB is a democratic process that grants people real power over real money and it has spread around the world. This special issue explores the role of PB in the context of sustainable governance. In this editorial, the authors aim to approach PB as a form of sustainable governance.Design/methodology/approachIn this editorial, the authors collaborate in the analysis of how PB is implicated in the public management of complex social, economic and ecological issues. The authors identify key dimensions of internal and external sustainability based on prior research. The authors approach these dimensions as an internal–external nexus of sustainable governance in which organizational and financial sustainability are the internal dimensions and socio-political and environmental sustainability are the external dimensions.FindingsEven though PB can be seen as one tool for citizen participation, it has the potential to foster sustainability in multiple ways. PB, as a form of sustainable governance, requires a financially and administratively sustainable organizational process that results in the institutionalization of PB. It also includes thorough consideration of socio-political and environmental sustainability impacts of PB.Originality/valueAcademics are actively studying PB from various perspectives. However, most of this work has approached PB from the viewpoints of design and results of PB, and less is known about its institutional settings. PB has not yet been adequately studied in the context of sustainability, and there is a need to scrutinize PB as a form of sustainable governance.

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Section: Social Sustainabilitymentioning

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Toward sustainable governance with participatory budgeting

Sinervo,

Bartocci,

Lehtonen

et al. 2024

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“…Studies on participatory budgeting provide insight into how best to organize and engage the public ( Sintomer et al. , 2008 ; Castillo, 2015 ; Gilman, 2016 ; Struić and Bratić, 2018 ; Russell and Jovanovic, 2020 ). These highlight that creating conditions for effective deliberation requires investments of time and in capacity-building, including training and incentivizing participants, dedicating staff to manage the process and creating an environment for an empowered, diverse and vibrant civil society ( Calisto Friant, 2019 ).…”

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Criteria for the procedural fairness of health financing decisions: a scoping review

Dale,

Peacocke,

Movik

et al. 2023

Health Policy and Planning

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Due to constraints on institutional capacity and financial resources, the road to universal health coverage (UHC) involves difficult policy choices. To assist with these choices, scholars and policy makers have done extensive work on criteria to assess the substantive fairness of health financing policies: their impact on the distribution of rights, duties, benefits and burdens on the path towards UHC. However, less attention has been paid to the procedural fairness of health financing decisions. The Accountability for Reasonableness Framework (A4R), which is widely applied to assess procedural fairness, has primarily been used in priority-setting for purchasing decisions, with revenue mobilization and pooling receiving limited attention. Furthermore, the sufficiency of the A4R framework’s four criteria (publicity, relevance, revisions and appeals, and enforcement) has been questioned. Moreover, research in political theory and public administration (including deliberative democracy), public finance, environmental management, psychology, and health financing has examined the key features of procedural fairness, but these insights have not been synthesized into a comprehensive set of criteria for fair decision-making processes in health financing. A systematic study of how these criteria have been applied in decision-making situations related to health financing and in other areas is also lacking. This paper addresses these gaps through a scoping review. It argues that the literature across many disciplines can be synthesized into 10 core criteria with common philosophical foundations. These go beyond A4R and encompass equality, impartiality, consistency over time, reason-giving, transparency, accuracy of information, participation, inclusiveness, revisability and enforcement. These criteria can be used to evaluate and guide decision-making processes for financing UHC across different country income levels and health financing arrangements. The review also presents examples of how these criteria have been applied to decisions in health financing and other sectors.

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Communicating about social justice in participatory budgeting in the United States: ‘Coming together’ to benefit communities

Russell

2023

Journal of Applied Communication Research

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Public deliberation and social justice sensibilities in Greensboro Participatory Budgeting

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Toward sustainable governance with participatory budgeting

Toward sustainable governance with participatory budgeting

Criteria for the procedural fairness of health financing decisions: a scoping review

Communicating about social justice in participatory budgeting in the United States: ‘Coming together’ to benefit communities

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