Benefits of class discussions on democracy
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This article presents the key findings of a study from Spain on the benefits of discussing democracy in the classroom.
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Improving participatory budgeting in Indonesia
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This report presents and analyzes the experience of six Indonesian cities in Indonesia in managing local participatory budgeting processes.
Read MoreParticipatory Budgeting in Kenya
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This report evaluates participatory budgeting programs in Kenya and provides recommendations to improve how the programs function.
Read MoreNational University, Rosario: PB Library
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A collection of research, organization, and management resources related to participatory budgets, mainly in Spanish.
Read MoreParticipatory budgeting blueprint guidebook
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This guidebook analyzes successful participatory budgeting initiatives from municipalities in the Baltic Sea region and other countries, highlighting specific problems addressed and innovative practices.
Read MoreImpacts of Participatory Budgeting on Civil Society & Political Participation
/A research brief that explains the theory of change linking PB civil society & political participation outcomes, presents six key research findings and shares practical recommendations for advocacy, planning & design, and research.
Read MoreThe limits of participatory democracy
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A research paper that presents the current state of participatory democracy, civil society organizations, and emerging informal politics in South Africa.
Read MoreGet Out The Vote (GOTV) experiment
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A research paper that presents findings on how the non-partisan voter mobilization impacts the popular vote in Brazil.
Read MoreImpacts of Participatory Budgeting on Governance & Well-Being
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A research brief that explains the theory of change linking PB to governance and well-being outcomes, presents seven key research findings, and share practical recommendations for advocacy, planning & design, and research.
Read MoreShifting Priorities: PB in New York City
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A paper studying the impact of participatory budgeting on public spending priorities in New York City.
Read MoreOf democratic governance and revenue
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A paper studying the impact of adopting participatory institutions on local tax revenues in Brazil.
Read MoreThe effects of PB in Brazil
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A paper studying the impact of participatory budgeting on public spending and living conditions, shown through the reduction of infant mortality, in Brazil.
Read MoreKorean-language PB research
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A paper sharing key insights on Korean-language research on participatory budgeting.
Read MoreLocal Initiatives Support Program in Russia
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A paper by the World Bank that evaluates the impacts of participatory budgeting programs implemented through Russia's Local Initatives Support Program (LISP).
Read MoreArticulation Instrument between Territorial Planning and Participatory Budgeting
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This paper presents comparative case studies about tools for applying participatory budgeting to broader processes of urban planning.
Read MoreBuilding a public culture of economics
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A report that recommends methods to build public trust in economic and public institutions in the UK by incorporating deliberative processes into economic policymaking.
Read MoreParticipatory budgeting: Spreading across the globe
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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.
Read MoreThe draw in politics
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A guide for using random selection in processes involving citizen participation.
Read MoreInvitation to a debate: Sortition
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A paper proposing the creation of "sortition chambers" on all administrative levels — from a chamber at the same level as the present-day Spanish Congress and Senate down to sortition chambers for each municipality.
Read MoreThe power of the village
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This book documents how the Porto Alegre Participatory Budget came into being and how this form of managing public resources was built from the beginning: conflicts, contradictions, difficulties, and solutions that arose in the course of its construction.
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