Participatory Budgeting and Community Development

A Global Perspective

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ID4767971
AuthorsMichael Touchton (0000-0001-7645-1391, University of Miami, corresponding author), Stephanie Mcnulty (0000-0001-6320-6469, Department of Political Science, Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, USA), B Wampler (0000-0001-8338-8095, Boise State University)
Year2023
Volume67
Issue4
Pages520-536
Publication date2023-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/00027642221086957
OpenAlexW4226424046
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited31

Participatory budgeting (PB) is designed to leverage local knowledge about community needs and translate spending preferences into tangible community development action by giving communities control over key budgetary resources. Moreover, PB participants learn about decision-making processes in development policy and can organize to pursue their communities' interests beyond the PB process by engaging with government and civil society. PB advocates hope that infrastructure, service delivery, and, ultimately, well-being will improve for underserved communities and groups that have been historically excluded from the perspective of representative democracy. This article presents the theoretical logic connecting PB to community development and summarizes the global evidence from studies that test the theoretical propositions above. We find evidence for PB's impact on community development performance in several important contexts. However, we also note that many hypotheses have yet to be tested in rigorous, large-N, comparative studies. There is thus considerable room to evaluate PB's impact in the future

Business · Citizen journalism · Civil society · Community development · Democracy · Government (linguistics) · Leverage (statistics) · Participatory budgeting · Participatory development · Perspective (graphical) · Political science · Politics · Process (computing) · Public relations · Sociology · Community Development and Social Impact · Computer Science · Law · Local Government Finance and Decentralization · Public Administration · Public Policy and Administration Research

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