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...LaShonda M. Stewart; Steven A. Miller; R. W. Hildreth; Maja V. Wright-Phillips Abstract This paper presents a preliminary analysis of the first participatory budgeting experiment in the United States, in Chicago’s 49th Ward. There are two avenues of inquiry: First, does participatory budgeting...

...Laura Pin Abstract This article uses participatory budgeting as an entry point to explore the relationship between race, citizenship, and participatory democracy. Drawing on theories of racial neoliberalism, I arguethat in Chicago (United States), heavy emphasis on the representation of Black...

...Ron Hayduk; Emily Woo; Jazveline Marinez Estrada; Aaron Adrian Abstract Participatory Budgeting (PB) is a welcome democratic innovation because it promises to empower traditionally marginalized groups and create more equitable public spending. PB delegates public authority to neighborhood residents...

...Carolin Hagelskamp; Rebecca Silliman; Erin B. Godfrey; David Schleifer Abstract In participatory budgeting (PB), residents instead of public officials decide how public money is spent. PB may reveal that residents prioritize different investments than public officials, which could lead to more...

...Celina Su Abstract Because of its popularity, there is now a large literature examining how participatory budgeting (PB) deepens participation by the poor and redistributes resources. Closer examinations of recent cases of PB can help us to better understand the political configurations in which...

...Ron Hayduk; Kristen Hackett; Diana Tamashiro Folla Abstract Participatory Budgeting (PB) is a welcome experiment in participatory democracy in New York City (NYC), one that could produce greater civic engagement of traditionally marginalized groups and more equitable resource distribution...

...Rachel Swaner Abstract Legitimacy is a problem of contemporary governance. Communities lack trust in elected officials—in their effectiveness, fairness, and representation of the public interest. Participatory budgeting (PB)—a set of democratic processes where residents determine how to spend...

...Isaac Jabola-Carolus Abstract Within five years of its launch, Participatory Budgeting in New York City (PBNYC) spread from four to thirty-one of New York’s fifty-one council districts, enabling city residents to directly allocate thirtyeight million dollars in public funds. During this period...

... of equity and equality. Participatory budgeting (PB) aims, too, to include the voices of the marginalized in substantive policymaking. Through a CRT lens, I examine the ways in which the New York City PB process has thus far worked to simultaneously disrupt and maintain racial hierarchies. I pay particular...

...Alexa Kasdan; Erin Markman Abstract Research and evaluation is an integral part of the Participatory Budgeting (PB) process. Since PB in New York City (PBNYC) is designed to be a democratic and community-based initiative that is grounded in the values of equity and inclusion, it is important...

...Josh Lerner Abstract Only a few years ago, participatory budgeting (PB) in the US was in its infancy, a tiny experiment in democracy. After a five-year growth spurt, PB has entered its awkward adolescence, full of bold achievements, flashes of potential, and some stumbles. PBNYC’s innovation has...

... © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group 2017 NEW POLITICAL SCIENCE, 2017 VOL. 39, NO.2, 317-318 httpdx.doLorgI10.1080/07393148.2017.1317972 ERRATUM Symposium on Public Budgeting New Political Science, 39:1 (2017), pp. 67-160. When issue 39-1 of New Political Science...

... conditions and the vulnerability of state budgets, along with the ever-changing preferences of governors and legislators. This article assesses the effects of the ebb and flow of Medicaid policy-making on at-risk populations and what this implies for the Affordable Care Act. By establishing a nationwide...

... politics is a distinctly California brand of anti-labor populism, tailored for the state’s neoliberal age of budget austerity and “permanent” fiscal and political crisis. Implications of how politicians present their political image to voters is considered, as well as prospects for the critical study...

... on the need to concentrate on institution-building in civil society was a testament to what Gramsci had called ‘patience allied with perseverance’. Yet the exemplary cases highlighted by Wright - above all the Participatory Budget institutions in Porto Alegre Brazil and those of Quebec’s Chantier de...

... billion in outlays, the fiscal year 2004 military budget exceeds the combined expenditures of the next 30 largest military spenders in the world. It is 43 times more than the expenditures of Iran and 304 times more than North Korea, its two remaining nemeses in the so-called "Axis of Evil." It now...

... budget and tax policy, as well as selected foreign policy areas. Methodologically, my experiences on Capitol Hill were most closely aligned with what Richard Fenno classically described as "soaking and poking-or just hanging around," an imprecise mixture of analysis and action more commonly characterized...

... are publicly funded, they are especially vulnerable when growth is threatened and budgets are under pr~ssure. The recurrent costs of social programs, especially salary cuts, tended to make them a permanent and, therefore, vulnerable part of Government budgets. 7 "Quick Fix" relief through disproportionate...

... known as the "budget repair bill," eliminated substantive collective bargaining rights for public employees in Wisconsin. In this inquiry, we ask: how did the conservative attack on Wisconsin's public sector labor rights leverage symbolically racialized frames in the tradition of welfare and crime...

... at a particular income level. One way of defining minimally adequate standards of living that avoid these pitfalls is the basic needs budget approach. The basic needs budget approach defines basic categories of need (food, housing, transportation, clothing, health care, child care) and assigns costs to each...