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

Abstract What can the Participatory Budget (PB) teach us about slum upgrading in the cities
of the Global South? This article describes the process of slum upgrading via PB in Porto …

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

Purpose Sustainability is a pressing challenge of governance and public financial
management. One key element of sustainable governance is the role of citizens …

Brazil is well-known for participatory planning praxis anchored on the right to the city and
federal legislation. Yet little is known about how the right to participation materializes …

Spacious Minds argues that resilience is not a mere absence of suffering. Sara E. Lewis's
research reveals how those who cope most gracefully may indeed experience deep pain …

We investigate the relationship between community organizations and the implementation of
a multi-ward participatory budgeting (PB) process in Chicago. Drawing on observations and …

The appeals of citizenship: a performative approach to discourse, subjectivity, and gender--"
We are gaúchos, we are gaúchas": incitements to gendered and regional subjectivity in the …

While the policy approach in Urban Regeneration Partnership tends to be viewed as
participatory governance using an urban studies lens, this article posits an alternative …

This article addresses the political transition of Porto Alegre's Participatory Budget from a
mechanism of restraining and managing some of the harshest manifestations of neoliberal …