This book explores the international diffusion of Participatory Budgeting (PB), a local policy created in 1989 in Porto Alegre, Brazil, which has now spread wor

This book analyses the participatory budgeting practice as it has evolved in evaluated countries, focusing on what is substantially at stake concerning the budg

Latin American countries have for a long time been importers of public policies and institutions from the Global North. The colonial legacy and resulting patter

Participatory Budgeting continues to spread across the globe as government officials and citizens adopt this innovative democratic program in the hopes of stren

Can participatory budgeting help make public services really work for the public? Incorporating a range of experiments in ten different countries, this book pro