Interview with Associate Professor Michael Menser
Michael Menser talks about the political impact of participatory budgeting projetcs in the US and how important the adaption of social and economic justice in a PB-process is.
Michael Menser talks about the political impact of participatory budgeting projetcs in the US and how important the adaption of social and economic justice in a PB-process is.
Does participatory budgeting effect public spending? Does pb empower citizens and lead to more democracy or is it simply a "symbolic policy device"? The following debate, lead by two top pb-experts, Carolin Hagelskamp and Thad Calabrese, focuses on these issues .
For new ideas on what participatory budgeting processes could look like, a glance at other countries may be helpful. A recently published video shows impressions of PB in the United States.
Summary of “Does Participatory Budgeting Alter Public Spending? Evidence from New York City” by Thad D. Calabrese (New York University), Daniel Williams (City University of New York), and Anubhav Gupta (National University of Singapore), Administration & Society.
"From my point of view there is no sense in setting up a group to organise PB unless they all have a firm belief in the process." Find out what else Alastair Kennedy, founder of the Money For Moray initiative in north-eastern Scotland, told us about the Participatory Budgeting project.
Documentation of the 2018 Network Meeting and international conference in Berlin.
Report on Best practices in initiative budgeting in Russia development in the Russian Federation regions and municipalities. This publication is a review of national experience and best practices in the development of initiative budgeting in Russia in 2018.
Report on Best practices in initiative budgeting in Russia development in the Russian Federation regions and municipalities. This publication is a review of national experience and best practices in the development of initiative budgeting in Russia up to 2018.
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