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...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...

... of contemporary capitalism. To address these important new political developments, this article argues for “participatory contract building” as a new direction in critical contract theory and participatory democracy. In order to unpack this approach, it analyzes the recent “crowd-sourced” constitution-drafting...

...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...

...R. W. Hildreth Abstract This article draws on the political philosophy of John Dewey as one way to re-think the relationship between deliberative and participatory democracy. Rather than focusing on differences, Dewey’s ideal of democracy allows us to bridge these two theories while still being...

...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...

...Hayley Elszasz Democracy without Shortcuts: A Participatory Conception of Deliberative Democracy, by Cristina Lafont , Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press , 2019 , 288 pp., $47.95 (hardback), ISBN: 978-0-1988-4818-9 © 2023 Hayley Elszasz 2023 @416 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Jeffrey D. Hilmer Abstract This article describes the origin, theoretical articulation, and decline of the theory of participatory democracy and makes a case for its revival, given its unique potential to illuminate recent empirical research on participatory democracy. Specifically, it is argued...

...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...

..., Participatory Democracy, & the Jury, New York: Oxford University Press, 2012, 221 pp. Albert Dzur's Punishment, Participatory Democracy, & the Jury is a cogently argued and persuasive account of the democratic potential of the jury, an institution rightly identified as being neglected by political scientists...

...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...

...Jason Vick Abstract What is the relationship between participatory and radical democracy and why are they relevant? This paper answers these questions by bringing into conversation the participatory theory of Pateman and the radical theories of Rancière and Wolin to see what they can learn from...

... of a participatory concept of democracy. Instead, this article turns to Aristotle to evaluate representative government in terms of moderation and stability that should be favorable to the claims of elite democracy. Even allowing for a moderate degree of inequality, representative government should be considered...

...Cyrus Ernesto Zirakzadeh Abstract Today, some scholars use the term “dialogical democracy” to denote a highly participatory, egalitarian, and pragmatic form of politics that occurs when people with different beliefs and social backgrounds meet, propound, and launch collective actions through open...

...Nayma Qayums Abstract Why do ordinary citizens embrace informal participation in hybrid regimes? Existing literature suggests that informal politics emerges in the absence of formal participatory avenues. But in many hybrid regimes, citizens participate in informal avenues alongside formal...