Background Participatory budgeting (PB), citizens deliberating among themselves and with
officials to decide how to allocate funds for public goods, has been increasingly …

Policy makers around the world tout decentralization as an effective tool in the governance
of natural resources. Despite the popularity of these reforms, there is limited scientific …

Fiscal transparency and participation in government budgeting are widely promoted, yet
claims about their benefits are rarely based on convincing evidence. We provide the first …

Community-driven development (CDD) has been identified as a potent vehicle for poverty
reduction. Over 105 countries have adopted CDD projects in the hope that citizen …

This study conducts a systematic literature review on citizen participation in public
budgeting, focusing on understanding the rationales of participatory initiatives and the …

Since the announcement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the need for
localization of SDGs has been emphasized. In this context, sustainable rural development is …

Después de más de quince años de la ratificación de la primera Ley Nacional del
Presupuesto Participativo (PP) en el Perú, la sensación de optimismo sobre el potencial de …

Municipal governments in the Global South vary in their ability to provide not only complex
social services, like environmentally proper solid waste disposal, but even simple services …

This collection provides comprehensive evidence of just how far the study of democratic
innovations has matured, theoretically and methodologically. It is hard to date when this field …

This book centers on a relatively neglected theme in the scholarly literature on Hannah
Arendt's political thought: her support for a new form of government in which citizen councils …