participatory budgeting
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Participatory Budgeting for a Stronger City
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Budgets are the new battlegrounds. While cities debate how to spend unprecedented amounts of federal relief funds and activists demand reallocation of police budgets to social services, decisions about how to allocate public dollars are drawing increased public scrutiny. It’s often said that budgets are moral documents that display a…
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Participatory Budgeting: Increasing the Power of the Taxpayer over Public Expenditures
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How effective is participatory budgeting at increasing government accountability and responsiveness in municipalities? Programs in Brazil find that allowing residents to choose preferential projects improves their social welfare and shifts constituent priorities to the forefront of public expenditures.
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Downtown Democracy: Municipal Government’s Responsiveness to Mass Policy Preferences
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New research finds that there is an ideological-bent to municipal public policies, and that this trend is reflective of the mass public’s policy preferences.