The Systemic Turn and Participatory Budgeting

The Case of Rio Grande do Sul

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3569182
AutoresSveinung Legard (autor de correspondencia), Benjamin Goldfrank (0000-0003-1823-2259, Seton Hall University)
Año2021
Volumen53
Número1
Páginas161-187
Fecha de publicación2021-02-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Latin American Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-216X • E-ISSN: 1469-767X
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0022216x20000954
OpenAlexW3091982621
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias 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