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Participatory Budgeting in Global Perspective

By: Brian Wampler,Stephanie McNulty,Michael Touchton

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Participatory Budgeting in Global Perspective

By: Brian Wampler,Stephanie McNulty,Michael Touchton

Participatory Budgeting continues to spread across the globe as government officials and citizens adopt this innovative democratic program in the hopes of strengthening accountability, civil society, and well-being. Governments often adapt PB's basic program design to meet local needs, thus creating wide variation in how PB programs function. Some programs retain features of radical democracy, others focus on community mobilization, and yet other programs seek to promote participatory development. Participatory Budgeting in Global Perspective provides a theoretical and empirical explanation to account for widespread variation in PB's adoption, adaptation, and impacts. This book develops six PB types to account for the wide variation in how PB programs function as well as the outcomes they produce. To illustrate the similar patterns across the globe, four empirical chapters present a rich set of case studies that illuminate the wide differences among these programs; chapters are organized regionally, with chapters on Latin America, Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Europe, and North America. By organizing the chapters regionally, it becomes clear that there are temporal, spatial, economic, and organizational factors that produce different programs across regions, but similar programs within each region. A key empirical finding is that the change in PB rules and design is now leading to significant differences in the outcomes these programs produce. We find that some programs successfully promote accountability, expand civil society, and improve well-being but, too often, researchers do not have any evidence tying PB to significant social or political change.

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Oxford University Press

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0192897756

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Democracy From Above?

The Unfulfilled Promise of Nationally Mandated Participatory Reforms

By: Stephanie L. McNulty

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Democracy From Above?

The Unfulfilled Promise of Nationally Mandated Participatory Reforms

By: Stephanie L. McNulty

People are increasingly unhappy with their governments in democracies around the world. In countries as diverse as India, Ecuador, and Uganda, governments are responding to frustrations by mandating greater citizen participation at the local and state level. Officials embrace participatory reforms, believing that citizen councils and committees lead to improved accountability and more informed communities. Yet there's been little research on the efficacy of these efforts to improve democracy, despite an explosion in their popularity since the mid-1980s. Democracy from Above? tests the hypothesis that top-down reforms strengthen democracies and evaluates the conditions that affect their success. Stephanie L. McNulty addresses the global context of participatory reforms in developing nations. She observes and interprets what happens after greater citizen involvement is mandated in seventeen countries, with close case studies of Guatemala, Bolivia, and Peru. The first cross-national comparison on this issue, Democracy from Above? explores whether the reforms effectively redress the persistent problems of discrimination, elite capture, clientelism, and corruption in the countries that adopt them. As officials and reformers around the world and at every level of government look to strengthen citizen involvement and confidence in the political process, McNulty provides a clear understanding of the possibilities and limitations of nationally mandated participatory reforms.

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Stanford University Press

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1503608956

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Voice and Vote

Decentralization and Participation in Post-Fujimori Peru

By: Stephanie McNulty

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Decentralization and Participation in Post-Fujimori Peru

By: Stephanie McNulty

This book investigates a recent Peruvian decentralization reform that is considered to be one of the most participatory in Latin America.

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080477398X

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Democracy From Above?

The Unfulfilled Promise of Nationally Mandated Participatory Reforms

By: Stephanie L. McNulty

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The Unfulfilled Promise of Nationally Mandated Participatory Reforms

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Participatory Budgeting in Global Perspective

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