Proportionality in Approval-Based Participatory Budgeting

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...

Participatory Budgeting: An Evidence Review

Emotional Arousal Effects in Participatory Budgeting Decisions

Participatory budgeting is applied by an increasing number of municipalities and organizations. Citizens can decide over an institutional budget. The allocation mechanism can affect emotional arousal, which influences the choice evaluation in the decicion-making process. Building on the endowment effect, we conduct an experiment testing a novel participatory budgeting approach that includes an ...

Participatory Budgeting in Germany: Citizens as Consultants

This chapter examines the current landscape of participatory budgets in Germany, which currently includes just under 100 local authorities that are actively involved in participatory budgeting (PB). Based on the history of PB in Germany, it shows how German participatory budgets typically pursue the objective of making local government more responsive, which is the reason why most participatory...

Brazil Participatory Budgeting in Porto Alegre

Brazil's political history had long been marked by authoritarian, techno-bureaucratic regimes in which the state dominated over civil society. A political culture based on a tradition of clientelism and patrimonial elitism meant that the management of municipal public budgets (the 'black box' as it was known) was far from transparent. All this produced a society with extreme social inequalities...