We inhabit a perpetually accelerating and increasingly interconnected world, with new
ideas, fads, and fashions moving at social-media speed. New policy ideas, especially “ideas …

The open government paradigm implies that public processes are becoming more
transparent, public information is available online, and citizens and nongovernmental …

Latin America has changed dramatically over the past few years. While the 1990s were
dominated by the politically orthodoxy of the Washington Consensus and the political …

This article addresses the long-standing controversy over the World Bank's role in the
promotion of participatory budgeting (PB). Some on the left have celebrated the Bank's …

A Brookings Institution Press and Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation
publication Participatory Budgeting—the experiment in democracy that could redefine how …

Over the past quarter century new ideologies of participation and representation have
proliferated across democratic and non-democratic regimes. In Participation without …

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 …

While prior studies have shown the importance of participatory institutions in strengthening
civil society and in improving policy outcomes, we know much less about why some …

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 …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to explore how accountability practices can enable
sociopolitical emancipation. Design/methodology/approach–The authors explore the …