Participatory budgeting

7 important questions on Participatory budgeting

What is the most common definition of participatory budgeting?

A decision-making procedure during which citizens deliberate and decide about (part of) a public budget -> it is a hybrid model of deliberating and voting

What does participatory budgeting look like in real life?

1. Pick themes
2. Allocate budgets
3. Citizens propose projects
4. Vote for projects

Why did Brazil and the United States introduce participatory budgeting according to Gilman and Wampler?

Brazil -> mission from the worker's party -> ideal society
US -> act-contingent motivations -> rational choice by Democratic Party -> symbolic
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What are the effects of participatory budgeting on citizens?

Participatory budgeting does pretty well in representation, especially on education level, but not so much on the age level

What are the effects of participatory budgeting on policies?

Politicians often chose those outcomes that they have proposed themselves before. The design and quality of the participation matters. Participants especially like it if they have control over the agenda

What was one of the main variables in determining whether participants afreed with the outcome and procedure?

Outcome favorability.

What is considered a failure in the Spada and Ryan article?

- survival
- sampling bias
- concept shifting
- pressure at the gate
- publication bias

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