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Author : Global Campaign on Urban Governance
Release : 2004
Genre : Local budgets
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 995/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis 72 Frequently Asked Questions about Participatory Budgeting by : Global Campaign on Urban Governance
Download or read book 72 Frequently Asked Questions about Participatory Budgeting written by Global Campaign on Urban Governance. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Victoria Gordon
Release : 2016-10-04
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 270/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Participatory Budgeting in the United States by : Victoria Gordon
Download or read book Participatory Budgeting in the United States written by Victoria Gordon. This book was released on 2016-10-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although citizen engagement is a core public service value, few public administrators receive training on how to share leadership with people outside the government. Participatory Budgeting in the United States serves as a primer for those looking to understand a classic example of participatory governance, engaging local citizens in examining budgetary constraints and priorities before making recommendations to local government. Utilizing case studies and an original set of interviews with community members, elected officials, and city employees, this book provides a rare window onto the participatory budgeting process through the words and experiences of the very individuals involved. The central themes that emerge from these fascinating and detailed cases focus on three core areas: creating the participatory budgeting infrastructure; increasing citizen participation in participatory budgeting; and assessing and increasing the impact of participatory budgeting. This book provides students, local government elected officials, practitioners, and citizens with a comprehensive understanding of participatory budgeting and straightforward guidelines to enhance the process of civic engagement and democratic values in local communities.
Author : Anwar Shah
Release : 2007
Genre : Business & Economics
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 245/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Participatory Budgeting by : Anwar Shah
Download or read book Participatory Budgeting written by Anwar Shah. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides rigorous and provocative understanding of the art and practice of participatory budgeting for those interested in strengthening inclusive and accountable governance.
Author : Michiel S. De Vries
Release : 2021-11-26
Genre : Law
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 301/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis International Trends in Participatory Budgeting by : Michiel S. De Vries
Download or read book International Trends in Participatory Budgeting written by Michiel S. De Vries. This book was released on 2021-11-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the participatory budgeting practice as it has evolved in evaluated countries, focusing on what is substantially at stake concerning the budget and issues involved, the actual participation, the way such processes are organised and administered, and the outcomes of such processes. It concludes that participatory budgeting in selected European countries is far away from the level of ‘best practice’, but that all experiences are not just trivial pursuits. The information collected serves to check, to what extent participatory budgeting as practiced in the countries involved presents a real attempt to change municipal budgets towards addressing the needs of marginalized groups and to improve decision-making based on local democracy and participation, or whether these processes as such are to be judged to be more important than any output and outcomes. The practices can neither be seen as a process of policy diffusion nor as a process of policy mimesis. The terminology of participatory budgeting remains, but the tools to achieve the goals resulted only in marginal changes in the status quo in municipalities in European countries practicing participatory budgeting, instead of resulting in radical changes to increase spending in favor of marginalized groups. Chapter 15 'Unraveled Practices of Participatory Budgeting in European Democracies' is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.
Author : Daniel Williams
Release : 2020-10-28
Genre : Business & Economics
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 014/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Real Money, Real Power? by : Daniel Williams
Download or read book Real Money, Real Power? written by Daniel Williams. This book was released on 2020-10-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York City has the largest council-sponsored Participatory Budgeting (PB) processes in North America. From its inception in Brazil, PB was a process that empowered the least-advantaged members of the community by providing a way to propose budget allocations through voting. This book reports on a multi-methodological study of New York City’s participatory budgeting (PB) process from the perspective of a city resident over time. A participatory budgeting slogan purports that the initiative offers “real power” and “real money” to constituents at a local level. To critically examine such top-down assertions, and different than much that has been written about PB, this book researches and navigates its events the way a member of the community would see it. The study reveals a lack of transparency, manipulation by city agencies, the favorable treatment of insider proposed projects, and a failure to reveal the basis of project costs. It also finds that there is no singular participatory budgeting project in New York City. Instead, there are numerous participatory budget projects, as many as there are council members who engage in the practice. This book provides a ground-level view of these limitations and recommends substantial reform.
