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  • 8 - Participatory Budgeting

  • from Part II - Participatory Governance
  • Edited by Brian D. Christens, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of Community Empowerment
    Published online:
    18 April 2024
    Print publication:
    25 April 2024, pp 216-240

  • Summary

    Participatory budgeting (PB) is a democratic process that engages citizens in public investment decisions through a mix of deliberation, representation, and voting. This chapter describes how this democratic innovation has been practiced, elaborates its goals, provides an overview of its origins and diffusion, and reviews research on its outcomes for citizen engagement, local governance, and community empowerment. These findings are illustrated by two case studies. Porto Alegre, Brazil, not only represents the birthplace of PB, but also is an example of uniquely pronounced changes in government responsiveness to underserved communities and in the strength of civil society organizations after PB’s implementation. New York City’s program is fairly representative of PB as practiced in the Global North. Controlling a smaller share of city budgets, processes like PBNYC have been more able to replicate Porto Alegre’s model of equitable citizen engagement than to transform urban governance or the organization of local civil society.