Political exclusion and support for democratic innovations: evidence from a conjoint experiment on participatory budgeting

Towards a Comparative Analysis of Democratic Innovations: Lessons from a pilot fs-QCA of Participatory Budgeting

While there has been a proliferation of academic interest in ‘democratic innovations’, most empirical analysis tends to rely on single case studies. Very little attention has been given to either comparative analysis of innovations or the conditions under which they emerge and are sustained. Recent studies of participatory budgeting (PB) have begun to utilise cross-case analysis in an attempt t...

How Political Signals Affect Public Support for Judicial Nominations: Evidence from a Conjoint Experiment*

How do Americans evaluate potential Supreme Court candidates? Using a novel, two-part conjoint experiment, I show that respondents put high importance on the political leanings of potential Court candidates, a finding in contrast with much existing literature. Indeed, when respondents are given information about a nominee’s political leanings they rely extensively on that information in determi...

Participatory Budgeting: An Evidence Review

A configurable architecture for e-Participatory budgeting support

Participatory budgets are emerging as a paradigm for participation. However, there are many variants of such experiences. Moreover there is a little use of ICT in this context. We present a configurable architecture for eparticipatory budget formation support.

Preference Elicitation For Participatory Budgeting

Participatory budgeting enables the allocation of public funds by collecting and aggregating individual preferences; it has already had a sizable real-world impact. But making the most of this new paradigm requires a rethinking of some of the basics of computational social choice, including the very way in which individuals express their preferences. We analytically compare four preference elic...