One particularly promising innovation is Participatory Budgeting (often shortened to “PB”, which is a process whereby citizens make spending decisions on a defined public budget and operate as active participants in public decision-making like allocating local funds in their neighborhood. The Brazilian Workers’ Party first attempted PB in 1989, where its success led to the World Bank calling PB a “best practice” in democratic innovation.
Since then, PB has expanded to over 1,500 cities worldwide, including in the United States. Starting in 2009 in Chicago’s 49th ward with a budget of just one million dollars, PB in the United States has become a $25-million-a-year experiment in New York City alone, supported by the intrepid work of the Participatory Budgeting Project.)
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One particularly promising innovation is Participatory Budgeting (often shortened to “PB”, which is a process whereby citizens make spending decisions on a defined public budget and operate as active participants in public decision-making like allocating local funds in their neighborhood. The Brazilian Workers’ Party first attempted PB in 1989, where its success led to the World Bank calling PB a “best practice” in democratic innovation.
Since then, PB has expanded to over 1,500 cities worldwide, including in the United States. Starting in 2009 in Chicago’s 49th ward with a budget of just one million dollars, PB in the United States has become a $25-million-a-year experiment in New York City alone, supported by the intrepid work of the Participatory Budgeting Project.)
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