Why Citizen Participation Succeeds or Fails

A Comparative Analysis of Participatory Budgeting
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-5292-0992-1
Verlag: Policy Press

Buch, Englisch, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 534 g

Matt Ryan’s landmark comparative review of participatory budgeting, or collective decisions on how public money is spent, reveals the factors behind its success in achieving democratic engagement.

The culmination of ten years of research into participation, this is a systematic analysis of how, when and why citizens gain control over these important decisions. Comparing global examples of both positive change and notable failure, the book provides persuasive evidence and guidance for future public involvement in taxation and spending.

For advocates and participants of democratic reform and those with interests across political science, this is an essential guide to one of the most significant democratic innovations of our times.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ryan, Matt

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Kommunikation und Partizipation

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I

1. Understanding Participation as a Response to Democratic Deficits

2. Participatory Budgeting: How Do We Understand Exceptional Democracy?

3. From Exceptions to Cases of a Participatory Budgeting Phenomenon

Part II

4. Comparing Participation Using Qualitative Comparative Analysis

5. What Participatory Democrats Expect

Part III

6. Necessary Conditions for Democratic Reform

7. Success: How Citizen Control of Politics is Achieved

8. How Citizen Control of Politics is Negated, and the Puzzles that Remain

9. Conclusion: Democratic Innovations after the Beginning

Über Autor(innen)

Ryan, Matt
Matt Ryan is Associate Professor in Governance and Public Policy at the University of Southampton, UK, and a UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellow.

Matt Ryan is Associate Professor in Governance and Public Policy at the University of Southampton and a UK Research and Innovation Future Leaders Fellow. He is founding Co-Director of the Centre for Democratic Futures, and Policy Director at the Web Science Institute.