The Systemic Turn and Participatory Budgeting

The Case of Rio Grande do Sul

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3569182
AutoresSveinung Legard (autor correspondente), Benjamin Goldfrank (0000-0003-1823-2259, Seton Hall University)
Ano2021
Volume53
Fascículo1
Páginas161-187
Data de publicação2021-02-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Latin American Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0022-216X • E-ISSN: 1469-767X
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0022216x20000954
OpenAlexW3091982621
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas48

Participatory budgeting (PB) has been one of the most popular local democratic reforms in Latin America in recent decades. This article examines what happened to PB when it was scaled up to the state level and integrated in a participatory system in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (2011-14). Using theories of deliberative systems, multichannel participation, 'venue shopping' (the practice of seeking the most favourable policy venue) and countervailing power, as well as a multimethod research design, we explain how the systems approach allowed for both deliberation and direct democracy and mobilised new sectors to participate online. However, on the negative side, the different participation channels undermined each other. Social movements migrated to other spaces, leaving the budgeting process open to control by well-established, powerful public-sector groups

Citizen journalism · Control (management) · Deliberation · Democracy · Economics · Latin Americans · Management · Participatory budgeting · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Social movement · Sociology · State (computer science) · E-Government and Public Services · Local Government Finance and Decentralization · Public Administration · Public Policy and Administration Research