Participatory Budgeting

For more up-to-date information on participatory budgeting, go to:

http://www.participatorybudgeting.org/

http://lists.topica.com/lists/participatorybudgeting

or look at the Open Budgets Blog:

http://internationalbudget.wordpress.com/

Deliberative/Direct Democracy (to be moved)

DIRECTLY-DELIBERATIVE POLYARCHY - Joshua Cohen and Charles Sabel

Conference 'Participatory democracy: current situation and opportunities provided by the European Constitution' - Brussels, 8 and 9 March 2004

Direct Democracy Web Ring

General Information about Participatory Budgets

The World Bank Guide to Participatory Budgeting - includes definitions, How-To’s, and descriptions of Bank-funded projects

72 Frequently Asked Questions about Participatory budgeting - UN-Habitat Participatory budgeting toolkit, Urban governance toolkit series July 2004 . Part of global campaign on urban governance

Bringing budgets alive: participatory budgeting in practice - Community Pride Initiative/Oxfam UK

A Guide to Participatory Budgeting - Brian Wamplers Guide at IBP

Participatory Budgets - A Tool for Participatory Democracy - Francoise Lieberherr, February 2003, Urban News No 7.

Participatory Budgeting in the UK

Young People and Participatory Budgeting in East Sussex

Short video on a participtory budgeting experiment in Bradford

Participatory Budgeting: Principles & Key Features Presentation (.ppt) - Ed Cox, Policy Officer, LGIU - looks at potential for PB in UK - 4th April 2006

Participatory Budgeting in the UK Presentation (.ppt) - Geoff Mulgan, director of the Young Foundation - 4th April 2006 - UK context and "quiet experiments"

Participatory Budgeting Through Local Strategic Partnerships: Community Pride's experience in Manchester - A briefing on attempts at transferring tools for local governance - May 2002

Welsh LGA writing about participatory budgets - includes info about Salford

Participatory budgets in a european comparative approach - YVES SINTOMER, CARSTEN HERZBERG, ANJA RÖCKE (EDS.) - 21 February 2006

Participatory Budgets in Europe: Between Efficiency and Growing Local Democracy - Giovanni Allegretti and Carsten Herzberg - TNI Briefing Series 5, October 2004

Participatory Budgeting UK – An organization promoting PB in the UK

Participatory budgeting in Canada

A PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING MODEL FOR CANADIAN CITIES - Hendrik T. Nieuwland - July 2003

A Participatory Budgeting Model For Canadian Cities: Improving Representation Through Increased Citizen Participation In The Municipal Budgeting Process - Hendrik T. Nieuwland - 2006

Participatory Budgeting in Porto Alegre

Website of the city of Porto Alegre

World Bank video of Porto Alegre: An Interesting Example

Orçamento Participativo: The remarkable experience of direct democracy in a Brazilian town

Participatory budgeting in Porto Alegre: Toward a redistributive democracy - Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Politics & Society; Stoneham; Dec 1998.

Slicing Up the Pie: Community involvement in PB in Porto Alegre, Brazil - Bridget O’Rourke, Community Pride Initiative

Participatory Budgeting in Porto Alegre, Brazil - William Goldsmith. Planners Network Online, no. 140.

Interviews about PB with 3 PT mayors in Porto Alegre, from 1989 to 2002 - The mayors are Olívio Dutra, Tarso Genro and Raul Pont - Rebbeca Abers 2001.

Porto Alegre Statistics (.ppt) - All sorts of figures from local tax collection, reucing basic needs, participation according to gender, age group, education, political affiliation and party sympathy. The slides have different origins but most of them come from “Cidade”. Source: “Baierle, Sergio (2006). ‘The experience of Porto Alegre’. Porto Alegre: Cidade”;

Lessons from PB in Porto Alegre Presentation (.ppt) - Rose Nierras (IDS) - 4th April 2006 - includes number of participants over time, investments per capita compared with average income in the regions and a map of the city. Source: ???

Designing Participatory Budgeting: Mathematics of opinion dynamics and aggregation - modelling

Case Studies

Civil Society, Public Space and Local Power: a study of the Participatory Budget in Belo Horizonte and Porto Alegre - Leonardo Avritzer 2000.

Deepening Democracy Through Citizen Participation? A Comparative Analysis of Three Cities - Benjamin Goldfrank - Comparing PB in Montevideo, Caracas and Porto Alegre 2001.

Recife, Brazil: Gender and the Participatory Budget. Win News 29-3. Summer 2003

Evaluations of PB

Budgets As If People Mattered: Democratising Macroeconomic Policies - UNDP/SEPED

Participation, Citizenship and Local Governance - John Gaventa and Camilo Valderrama, Institute of Development Studies, June 21-24, 1999 Background note prepared for workshop on ‘Strengthening participation in local governance’

Assessment of Participatory Budgeting in Brazil - Center for Urban Development Studies Graduate School of Design, Harvard University.

What If Citizens Got To Decide the City Budget? Brazil’s Workers Party Tries "Participatory Budgeting" - Micah Maidenberg, Labor Notes, October 2002

Practicing Radical Democracy: Lessons from Brazil - Rebecca Abers, Paper presented at the Insurgent Planning Practices Workshop – Perugia, Italy, June 21-27, 1998

Deeper Analysis

Experiments in Deliberative Democracy: Introduction - Fung, Archon and Erik Olin Wright (1998).

Modes of Democratic Deliberation: theoretical remarks on participatory budgeting in Brazil - Leonardo Avritzer

Participatory Budget: A tool for democratizing democracy - Talk by Daniel Schugurensky at Toronto Metro Hall, April 29, 2004.

Articles

Cities For People - Daniel Chavez - Red Pepper 61, June 1999 - describes how two experiments in participatory democracy have transformed the political culture in Brazil and Uruguay

The Citizens of Porto Alegre - In which Marco borrows bus fare and enters politics - Gianpaolo Baiocchi - March/April 2006 issue of Boston Review

Participation lite: the watering down of people power in Porto Alegre - Daniel Chavez - Red Pepper, May 2006

Background Info

In the Eye of the Storm: Left-wing activists discuss the political crisis in Brazil

Organisations

CIDADE - an NGO in Porto Alegre

Budget Participatif - French network promoting participation in local budgeting

Participatory Budgeting UK – An organization promoting PB in the UK

Socialists for PB in Buenos Aires (Spanish) http://www.presupuestoparticipativo.com/

The International Budget Project (IBP): International organization focusing on public budgeting issues

UNESCO Program on Community Participation and Governance

UN- Habitat: The United Nations Human Settlements Programme - UN-HABITAT, is the United Nations agency for human settlements.