scholarly journals Presupuesto Participativos (PPs) e Instituciones Participativas (IPs) en Brasil: Criterios (y marco) para la evaluación de experiencias y casos

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valdemir Pires ◽  
Carmen Pineda Nebot
Keyword(s):  
Comprehensive Assessment ◽  
Participatory Budgeting ◽  
Participatory Institutions ◽  
Criteria For Evaluation

<p align="justify">En este artículo se identifican diversos criterios relevantes para la evaluación de los presupuestos participativos y las instituciones participativas que son adoptados actualmente por gobiernos tanto de Brasil como de otros lugares del mundo, destacando la importancia de una evaluación global que integre todos estos criterios. Finalmente, se recomienda prestar especial atención a la evaluación de la deseabilidad de esas instituciones, que no siempre son percibidas positivamente por las teorías sobre la democracia.</p> <p align="justify"><b>This paper identifies relevant criteria for evaluation of participatory budgeting and participatory institutions that are currently adopted by governments of both Brazil and elsewhere, highlighting the importance of a comprehensive assessment that integrates all these criteria. Finally, it is recommended to pay special attention to assessing the desirability of these institutions, which are not always positively for theories on democracy.</b></p>

Participatory budgeting and government efficiency: evidence from municipal governments in South Korea

2021 ◽  
pp. 002085232199120
Author(s):  
Sun-Moon Jung
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Fiscal Sustainability ◽  
Efficiency Improvement ◽  
Participatory Budgeting ◽  
Strong Argument ◽  
Municipal Governments ◽  
Administrative Efficiency ◽  
Participatory Institutions ◽  
Improvement Effect ◽  
Government Efficiency

The current study evaluates the role of a democratic institution—participatory budgeting—in improving government efficiency. Participatory institutions aim to enhance governance, information sharing, and the responsiveness of political agents to citizens, leading to fiscal accountability and efficiency. Drawing from a database of 221 municipal governments in South Korea around a mandatory participatory budgeting adoption period, we find that participatory budgeting adoptions are followed by improvement in multiple dimensions of government efficiency. In particular, municipal governments experience statistically significant improvements in their fiscal sustainability and administrative efficiency. In additional analysis, we find that the efficiency improvements are more pronounced in the presence of strong mayoral leadership. Overall findings suggest that participatory budgeting programs contribute to fiscal health and administrative efficiency, above and beyond their role in securing fiscal democracy. Points for practitioners The current study suggests that participatory budget systems not only contribute to quality in democracy (as prior studies have found), but also improve fiscal efficiency and accountability by serving as a bottom-up governance mechanism. We document that introductions of participatory budgeting programs are followed by statistically significant improvements in fiscal sustainability and administrative efficiency. The results also indicate that the efficiency-improvement effect differs across municipalities, depending on their political environments. Overall, this study provides a strong argument for the participatory budgeting system by empirically supporting its efficiency-improvement effect.

Managed Participation: City Agencies and Micropolitics in Participatory Budgeting

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (4_suppl) ◽  
pp. 76S-96S ◽  
Author(s):  
Celina Su
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
The United States ◽  
Technical Knowledge ◽  
Participatory Budgeting ◽  
Participatory Institutions ◽  
City Agencies ◽  
City Agency

As participatory budgeting (PB) processes proliferate around the globe and within the United States, there remain questions regarding PB’s contested role as an empowering, pro-poor tool for social justice. This analysis of the New York City PB process focuses on the interactions between everyday participants in PB and city agency representatives, the bureaucrats involved in the process. In New York, PB has successfully broadened notions of stakeholdership for many constituents. Still, the agencies’ micropolitical practices—especially regarding contested politics and local versus technical knowledge—help to forward a model of managed participation, sidelining deliberative aspects of the process. Combined with a context of austerity, these practices limit the ability of such participatory institutions to retain volunteer participants, as well as the ability of constituents to substantively shape state priorities.

Expanding Accountability through Participatory Institutions: Mayors, Citizens, and Budgeting in Three Brazilian Municipalities

2004 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Wampler
Keyword(s):  
Political Institutions ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Institutional Arrangements ◽  
Policy Preferences ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Participatory Budgeting ◽  
Porto Alegre ◽  
Participatory Institutions

AbstractAs new political institutions provide Brazilians with unprecedented access to policymaking and decisionmaking venues, politicians and activists have undertaken reform efforts to promote institutional arrangements partly designed to expand accountability. The expansion of participatory decisionmaking venues may grant citizens greater authority, but these institutions could also undermine municipal councils’ ability to curb the prerogatives of mayors. This article analyzes participatory budgeting in São Paulo, Recife, and Porto Alegre to illustrate that mayors have differing capacities to implement their policy preferences, and this greatly affects how accountability may be extended.

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