Building a public culture of economics
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A report that recommends methods to build public trust in economic and public institutions in the UK by incorporating deliberative processes into economic policymaking.
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Participatory budgeting: Spreading across the globe
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This report sums up the current state of our understanding of PB. It focuses on several important aspects of PB and how it has evolved in the past twenty years, including conditions for implementation, impacts, and the role of technology, with an emphasis on the Global South.
Read MoreThe draw in politics
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A guide for using random selection in processes involving citizen participation.
Read MoreInvitation to a debate: Sortition
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A paper proposing the creation of "sortition chambers" on all administrative levels — from a chamber at the same level as the present-day Spanish Congress and Senate down to sortition chambers for each municipality.
Read MoreThe power of the village
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This book documents how the Porto Alegre Participatory Budget came into being and how this form of managing public resources was built from the beginning: conflicts, contradictions, difficulties, and solutions that arose in the course of its construction.
Read MoreParticipatory budgeting: Multiple perspectives
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Book edited by the Paulo Freire Institute that explores themes like citizenship, citzen participation, and social education in relation to participatory budgeting.
Read MorePathways through participation
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A report of a research project that explores how and why individuals get and stay involved in different forms of participation and the factors that shape their participation over time.
Read MoreAnother city is possible: PB
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A book edited by Yves Cabannes that discusses the background and challenges of PB processes. It highlights 13 cases of PB around the world, in various contexts and institutions. It also includes recommendations to address challenges with participation.
Read MorePublic engagement for public health
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A paper that evaluates and finds that participatory budgeting substancially reduces infant mortality in Brazilian communities, even more so when the programme is institutionalised.
Read MoreBest practices in initiative budgeting
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A report on the best practices in initiative (participatory) budgeting in Russia for researchers, government officials, and civic activists.
Read MoreSharing sortition with some soul
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An essay that presents challenges to communicating effectively about sortition, and concrete ways to overcome them.
Read MoreDrawing lots for fairer elections
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A video explaining a project from two researchers in Switzerland in which they explored drawing lots, a process used throughout history to make political decisions.
Read MoreSorted: Civic lotteries
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A report that explains how sortition can lower the barrier to political participation and create a more powerful and direct role for citizens.
Read MoreThe People's Verdict
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A study of almost 50 long-form deliberative processes in Canada and Australia that makes the case that adding informed citizen voices to public decision-making leads to more effective policies.
Read MoreCitizens’ assemblies are increasingly popular
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Accessible article in The Economist explaining how citizen assemblies work, why they are becoming more popular, and their challenges.
Read MoreCo-designing the PB movement
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A report on the major challenges and needs of participatory budgeting implementers, developed through the PB Exchange, a co-design process with dozens of international experts and practitioners.
Read MoreSchool PB toolkit: Inclusive practice
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A toolkit that shares practices gleaned from the inclusive School PB model developed in response to inclusivity challenges students with disabilities face.
Read MoreContributions of PB to climate change
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A report by Yves Cabannes that reviews 15 initiatives that use PB to address climate change adaptation and mitigation. It discusses the contributions, innovations, and challenges of these programs.
Read MoreFixing democracy with people power
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An opinion piece from the political right in The Australian newspaper about the Geelong Citizens' Jury.
Read MoreThirty years of PB in the world
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A book about the 30 years of participatory budgeting around the world. It focuses on the international context that enabled PB's international dissemination.
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