POL101Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Participatory Budgeting
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Expanding accountability through participatory institutions: mayors, citizens, and. In brazil, participatory institutions have been implemented at the behest of political strategies promoted by participatory or leftist sectors of brazil"s political and civil societies. These institutions are designed to overcome numerous social and political problems, such as low levels of accountability, inefficiencies in social service provisions, and corruption, all of which hamper efforts to improve the quality of democratic governance. This article considers brazil"s best-known participatory experience, participatory budgeting (pb, orfamento participativo), in the municipalities of sao paulo, recife, and. This innovative institutional format incorporates citizens and municipal administrative officials into a policymaking process in which citizens directly negotiate over the distribution of public resources. In the most successful cases, pb has had the power to transform basic state-society relations, redistribute resources to underserviced neighborhoods, and create transparency in the budgetary process. This article draws on the three variants of the accountability debates: societal, vertical, and horizontal.
