Participatory budgeting: Spreading across the globe

This report sums up the current state of our understanding of PB. It focuses on several important aspects of PB and how it has evolved in the past twenty years, including conditions for implementation, impacts, and the role of technology, with an emphasis on the Global South.

The authors first introduce and review the key trends in research in order to identify the parameters of research questions. Second, they describe the spread of PB across the globe and the conditions for its implementation. The third section identifies the key issues that adopting governments often have to address when they adapt PB’s rules to meet local needs, while the fourth section explores the potential impact that PB programs are thought to generate.

The fifth section narrows the analysis to focus explicitly on citizen participation and inclusion. The sixth section focuses on the role of technology in PB. The seventh section illuminates issues related to advocacy organizations, donors, and ‘PB Champions.’ The eighth section focuses on research, with an emphasis on conflicting findings as well as gaps in our knowledge and research opportunities in the near future.

Source: Academia
Author information: Brian Wampler, Stephanie McNulty, Michael Touchton

Year of publication: 2017