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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Participatory Budgeting"”.
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Community-led participatory budgeting in Bangalore : learning from successful cases
… society organization, Janaagraha, launched a participatory budgeting campaign aimed at improving local governance through engaging citizens in local infrastructure planning. The campaign resulted in citizens' budget priorities being approved in over twenty percent of the city's wards. …
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From Brazil to Britain: the vicissitudes of participatory budgeting: the importance of context
This project asks: How was it that a participatory practice, originating in the demands of social movements in Brazil, came to fit within the prevailing neoliberal orthodoxy? It explores changes within both neoliberalism and the practice of Participatory Budgeting (PB) itself. It examines PB’s …
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Participatory budgeting's contributions to environmental justice : evaluating Green Projects funded through Greensboro PB
Participatory Budgeting (PB) is a process in which the people most affected by a budget determine how it is spent. Since its onset in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 1989, PB has spread to thousands of cities globally and is lauded as a solution to top-down governing that enhances democracy, boosts civic …
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Designing economic democracy Boston Ujima Project's participatory allocation process
This client-based thesis analyzes Participatory Budgeting processes in two cities to help guide the institutional design of Boston Ujima Project's participatory allocation process. Grassroots-led organization Boston Ujima Project is developing a democratically-governed Capital Fund by integrating …
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A Sovereign People? Lessons from Participatory Budgeting Experiences in the UK. A study of egalitarian and elitist democratic narratives animating the practice of citizenship, and their role in determining appropriate responses to the UK democratic deficit.
… citizen participation. The Porto Alegrean participatory budgeting experience provides a contrasting example of the egalitarian tradition which has inspired similar innovations around the world (in some cases, precisely in hopes of reinvigorating Western democracies). This study presents …
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Measuring Empowerment and Social Inclusion in Favela Upgrading Belo Horizonte, Brazil
… Brazil's orçamento participativo (OP) or participatory budgeting process as "an instrument of empowerment and social inclusion" implemented by the Worker's Party to foster the "efficient and democratic allocation of resources and citizen involvement in the planning and management of their …
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Participação política e construção da cidadania ativa: estudo exploratório do orçamento participativo em João Pessoa-PB
… by citizens, specifically the directors , the Participatory Budget in the city of João Pessoa, has encouraged them to participate in other public spaces , thus contributing to the exercise of active citizenship, that is , that in which the citizen , as well as being included in the decision …
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Tracing the Development of East African Community on Peace and Security
… This thesis also employs the theories of Participatory Budgeting (PB) and ground up approach as models for strengthening state and East African Civil Society Organization Forum (EACSOF). This thesis concludes that responsive security community in EA requires strong states which combine a …
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Facets of proportionality
… collective decision-making settings: voting, budgeting, and clustering. In these settings, we develop new axioms and rules to assess and enable outcomes which proportionally reflect the opinions of all agents taking part in the decision-making. In the first part, we examine proportionality in …
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Participation, power and democracy: A comparative study of community engagement processes.
Participatory arenas have been a growing feature of governance and public policy in the 'North' and 'South' as attempts are made to involve local communities in decision-making processes. These developments have been accompanied by a proliferation of research examining these community engagement …
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Strateginis savivaldybės iždo valdymas /
… administrations should apply the principles of participatory budgeting, prepare common financial arrangements suitable for all public sector entities and enhance cooperation with other public sector bodies by sharing best practices and knowledge gained.
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Planejamento e gestão orçamentária participativa: uma análise da percepção da comunidade acadêmica da Universidade Federal do Vale do São Francisco
… democratic principles by integrating new participatory methodologies. So any movement of government pointing to the division of this responsibility and expansion of discussions on the good use of public funds deserves attention, essentially to turn the aspirations of the public …