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... socially just spending. However, little research has examined whether and how PB shifts spending priorities. This study leverages publicly available records on New York City council districts’ capital project allocations over ten years (2009 through 2018), comparing spending within and across PB and non-PB...

... of Historically Black Colleges and Universities Clyde Wilcox Georgetown University, USA JoVita Wells University of the District of Columbia, USA Georges Haddad Howard University School of Medicine, USA Judith K. Wilcox Boston University School of Medicine, USA Abstract Historically Black Colleges and Universities...

... increased, growing from nineteen to twenty-eight percent of all PB voters. Yet, immigrant participation lags compared to their numbers, with great variation among PB districts. Using a mixed methods approach that incorporates surveys of and interviews with immigrant community members, staff at immigrant...

... a public budget—helps bridge that distance by letting the public make spending decisions. Since 2011, some of New York City’s (NYC) council members have been implementing PB with their capital budget—setting aside a million dollars in their districts each budget cycle for PB. Participatory budgeting has...

...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...

... third-party candidates often lose because they are not sufficiently connected to their districts socially. Due to this deficit, they are unable to appeal to as many voters as typically better connected major party opponents. This is interpreted as indicative both of major parties’ hegenionic ability...

... constituents, including communities of color, its current focus on districts and the voting phase, alongside limited work on critical praxis, limits the extent to which these newly enfranchised constituents can problematize larger funding formulas and criteria in public budgets. © 2017 Caucus for a New...

... in their attempt to organize collective political identities, contest elections, and build long term grassroots power in a conservative rural district. The key tactic for organizers was the persuasion cycle , where canvassers would develop rich personal narratives and engage voters in deep conversations...

...Bernard Tamas Abstract Two key threats facing American democracy today are gerrymandering and voter suppression. In this article, I argue that both of these threats are a direct consequence of the US using a single-member district (SMD) electoral system. This is because SMD creates significant...

... of fusion by most states around 1900 undermined third parties, and that the continued use of fusion in New York State is a primary reason why third parties remain strong there. In this paper, which is based on a district-level analysis of all elections to the House of Representatives since 1870, I argue...

... at: httpswww.politico.com/story/2017/04/vetera ns-house-democrats-recruiting-236845. 4Richard F. Fenno, Home Style: House Members in Their Districts (Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 1978); Raymond E. Wolfinger, The Politics of Progress (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1974). © 2020 Caucus for a New Political Science @NEW...

... government 9Participatory Budgeting Project, "15 Key Metrics for Evaluating PB," (September 13, 2015). httpswww. participatorybudgeting.org/15-key-metrics-for-evaluating-pb/ (accessed June 5, 2022). Several districts in San Francisco also used PB in past decades but data limitations prevented analysis...

... deliberate. Under colorblind individualism, pre-Brown policies that explicitly forbade Black pupils from being assigned to schools with White students would be recognized as White supremacist. However, if racially segregated schools are the result of drawing school districts along the lines of racially...

... a single local process in the United States (US) to a projected forty-five district, city, or institutional processes this year. Community organizing coalitions like Right to the City have advocated for PB as one means of reclaiming the commons, and President Obama announced PB as a key element of a recent...

... such as social mobility, inequality, or social stratification focus on the individual level of analysis (primarily utilizing survey data) or on aspects of the educational system itself (considering fields of study, school district funding schemes, and types or rankings of higher educational institutions).5 While...

... meeting in our new hometown, in a dimly lit hotel room on the side of a major highway. It was 2011, right before the emergence of Occupy Wall Street. Like many, I was deeply disappointed with the Obama administration, but with no Green alternative in town, we decided to join the small district committee...

.... Individual Council members opt-in to the PB process, and dedicate at least one million dollars of their capital discretionary funds for PB projects in their district each cycle. Community members in their districts convene in neighborhood assemblies to brainstorm project ideas, refine these ideas...

... of Proposition 35 spanned the political spectrum and included the state Democratic and Republican parties, both Democratic United States (US) Senators, and many dozens of law enforcement groups, district attorneys, labor unions, women's groups, religious organizations, civic organizations, city councils...

... response rate overall. Survey respondents came from 81 of the 84 judicial districts that operate under the USTP, and 47 of the 48 states that operate under the USTP. @NEW POLITICAL SCIENCE 337 inconsistent safety net that opens debtors up to potentially predatory practices by those who administer...

.... Unlike in other leading international PB programs, PBNYC remains confined to the district level, limiting projects and collaboration to within district boundaries.2 And unlike in other US cities with district PB processes, New York City Cou nciI Mem bers on Iy com mit a sma II portion of thei r...