Can participatory budgeting help make public services really work for the public? Incorporating a range of experiments in ten different countries, this book pro

This book analyses the participatory budgeting practice as it has evolved in evaluated countries, focusing on what is substantially at stake concerning the budg

This book explores the international diffusion of Participatory Budgeting (PB), a local policy created in 1989 in Porto Alegre, Brazil, which has now spread wor

Citizens' participation, especially participatory budgeting, has spread out in both continents, even if the context is very different. This book offers an overv

Representative democracy is often seen as a stable institutional system insusceptible to change. However, the preferences of the broad public are changing and r