A band inaugurates a public work selected through participatory budgeting in Brazil (picture by Prefeitura de Olinda on Flickr).
The new issue of the Journal of Public Deliberation (Volume 8, Issue 2 – 2012) presents 13 new articles on participatory budgeting. Edited by Janette Hartz-Karpz (Curtin University) and Brian Wampler (Boise State University) “This special issue of the Journal of Public Deliberation brings together leading scholars expand our conceptual tools to understand why PB programs are being adopted, how governments are adapting the rules and principles to meet different policy and political goals, and the impact of PB on civil society, state reform, and social well-being.”
Below links to the articles:
Whose Budget? Our Budget? Broadening Political Stakeholdership via Participatory Budgeting
Celina Su
By the People, For the People: Participatory Budgeting from the Bottom Up in North America
Josh Lerner and Donata Secondo
(In) stability, a key element to understand participatory budgeting: Discussing Portuguese cases.
Mariana Lopes Alves and Giovanni Allegretti
An Unlikely Success: Peru’s Top-Down Participatory Budgeting Experience
Stephanie McNulty
Participatory budgeting – the Australian way
Nivek K. Thompson
Laying the Groundwork for Participatory Budgeting – Developing a Deliberative Community and Collaborative Governance: Greater Geraldton, Western Australia
Janette Hartz-Karp Prof
The World Bank and the Globalization of Participatory Budgeting
Benjamin Goldfrank
The Power of Ambiguity: How Participatory Budgeting Travels the Globe
Ernesto Ganuza and Gianpaolo Baiocchi
Transnational Models of Citizen Participation: The Case of Participatory Budgeting
Yves Sintomer, Carsten Herzberg, Anja Röcke, and Giovanni Allegretti
Transformative Deliberations: Participatory Budgeting in the United States
Hollie Russon Gilman
Participatory Budgeting: Core principles and Key Impacts
Brian Wampler
Participatory Budgeting: Diffusion and Outcomes across the World
Brian Wampler and Janette Hartz-karp
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Brilliant Papers, throwing greater light to people like myself interested in the introduction of Participatory (alias People’s) Budget in my own country.