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The Thing That Worked The Thing That Worked
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The Individual-Association Pendulum The Individual-Association Pendulum
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Administrative Reform and a New Public Sphere Administrative Reform and a New Public Sphere
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The Remaining Opposition of Neighborhood Associations The Remaining Opposition of Neighborhood Associations
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Successes Successes
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Becoming a Best Practice Becoming a Best Practice
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Becoming a Modifiable Model—Leftism That Worked Becoming a Modifiable Model—Leftism That Worked
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The Making of a Legend: International Networks The Making of a Legend: International Networks
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A Tool for Good Governance A Tool for Good Governance
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Democracy in Motion Democracy in Motion
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Political Openings and Possibilities Political Openings and Possibilities
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10 Becoming a Best Practice: Neoliberalism and the Curious Case of Participatory Budgeting
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Published:January 2015
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Abstract
This chapter examines how the concept of “participatory budgeting” has become a global phenomenon. It traces the genealogy of participatory budgeting, from its original formulation as a tool of grassroots democracy in Brazil in the mid-1980s to its emergence as a best practice for intergovernmental organizations such as USAID and the World Bank, especially in the area of good governance. It explains how participatory budgeting evolved into a model of participatory democracy that deemphasized associations and collectives in favor of the individual citizen. It also considers the notion that political and economic elites colonized “pure” participation in order to legitimate the expansion of capitalist markets, suggesting that regulation and governance questions are always a part of public participation and that participatory practices are never exactly utopian.
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