Participatory budgeting in Brazilian cities: limits and possibilities in building democratic institutions
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In participatory budgeting as mentioned in this paper, citizen assemblies in each district of a city determine priorities for the use of a part of the city’s revenues, based on a voting system.Abstract:
This paper describes participatory budgeting in Brazil, where citizen assemblies in each district of a city determine priorities for the use of a part of the city’s revenues. This is one of the mos...read more
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TL;DR: In Good Government in the Tropics as discussed by the authors, a set of four cases involving public bureaucracies at work under the direction of an innovative state government in Brazil, the authors offer findings of significance to the current debates about organization of the public-sector workplace, public service delivery, decentralization, and the interaction between government and civil society.
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Constitutional engineering in Brazil : the politics of federalism and decentralization
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Testing the Empowerment Thesis: The Participatory Budget in Belo Horizonte and Betim, Brazil
TL;DR: The authors argue that these problems diminish when citizens become directly involved in public policymaking processes, especially at the local or grass-roots level where such processes seem more relevant to people's day-to-day lives.