The Scaling-up of Participatory Budgeting

School Participatory Budgeting: An Emerging Governance Tool and Its Managerial Considerations

“…Other European countries, including Poland and Finland, also have used municipal youth PB (Lehtonen & Radzik-Maruszak, 2023). In Portugal, a nationwide launch of youth PB and school PB occurred in 2017, driven by the Ministry of Education (Falanga, 2018). The objectives of these initiatives encompass practicing citizenship and democracy, fostering a sense of belonging, improving schools, and developing financial literacy.…”

The cost of participation: An analysis of the financial dimensions of participatory budgets in Portugal

“…Finally, the fourth wave was characterized by scaled up PBs at the regional and national levels. The implementation of three national PBs, since 2017, encompassed open participation of the civil society at large, as well as younger people, and pupils in public schools (Falanga & Fonseca, 2021), followed by PBs in the two autonomous regions of Azores and Madeira in 2018 and 2019 (Falanga, 2023).…”

“…Understanding the kick‐off of the Cascais PB as the beginning of a third stage of dissemination, cross‐cutting trends are retrievable from other Portuguese PBs. Unlike PBs run in neighboring countries, such as in Spain and Italy (Manes‐Rossi et al, 2021; Sintomer et al, 2012), or in inspirational countries, such as Brazil (Gonçalves, 2013; Wampler & Goldfrank, 2022), Portuguese PBs were heavily characterized by a new governance‐driven agenda under the leadership of moderate political parties (Falanga, 2018), with a slight prevalence of center‐left coalitions (Bogo, 2020).…”

“…First, the country presented a remarkable dissemination of local PBs, as shown by several scholars (Dias et al, 2018; Falanga & Lüchmann, 2020). Second, Portugal was the first country to implement national PBs worldwide, then followed by regional PBs in Azores and Madeira islands (Dias et al, 2019; Falanga, 2018, 2023). Third, Portugal is deemed to be the second most influential country in this field of practice behind Brazil, where PBs were first experimented in the late 1980s (Dias, Enríquez, et al, 2021).…”

Co-production and Voice in Policymaking: Participatory Processes in the European Periphery

“…The country has held the highest rate of local PBs until 2019, as the outbreak of the covid-19 pandemic counteracted this trend in the last couple of years. In addition, Portugal was the first country hosting three national PBs addressing different publics since 2017, namely the entire population, young people and schools’ pupils (Falanga and Fonseca 2021 ). More recently, the two autonomous regions of Madeira and Azores implemented regional PBs too, which added a layer of complexity to understanding patterns of dissemination.…”