Whose Budget? Our Budget? Broadening Political Stakeholdership via Participatory Budgeting
In this thought piece, I attempt to contextualize New York City’s inaugural participatory budgeting (PB) process in the larger landscape of American political participation. I discuss how the bottom-up way in which stakeholders wrote the process’s rules in the first place, alongside the core role pl...
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| description | In this thought piece, I attempt to contextualize New York City’s inaugural participatory budgeting (PB) process in the larger landscape of American political participation. I discuss how the bottom-up way in which stakeholders wrote the process’s rules in the first place, alongside the core role played by the two lead organizations, helped to broaden notions of stakeholdership among constituents. Ultimately, the first year’s primary achievement regarding political participation was not a specific set of outcomes, but a debut as an unfinished form of governance—one that began to engage traditionally marginalized constituents, to trigger their political imagination, and to prompt them to demand more. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-beeb8e4396da469c855aa87f2b3d78062022-12-22T04:17:13ZengUniversity of Westminster PressJournal of Deliberative Democracy2634-04882012-12-018210.16997/jdd.149Whose Budget? Our Budget? Broadening Political Stakeholdership via Participatory BudgetingCelina Su0City University of New YorkIn this thought piece, I attempt to contextualize New York City’s inaugural participatory budgeting (PB) process in the larger landscape of American political participation. I discuss how the bottom-up way in which stakeholders wrote the process’s rules in the first place, alongside the core role played by the two lead organizations, helped to broaden notions of stakeholdership among constituents. Ultimately, the first year’s primary achievement regarding political participation was not a specific set of outcomes, but a debut as an unfinished form of governance—one that began to engage traditionally marginalized constituents, to trigger their political imagination, and to prompt them to demand more.https://delibdemjournal.org/article/id/421/participatory budgetingyouthcivic engagementparticipationstakeholders |
| spellingShingle | Celina Su Whose Budget? Our Budget? Broadening Political Stakeholdership via Participatory Budgeting Journal of Deliberative Democracy participatory budgeting youth civic engagement participation stakeholders |
| title | Whose Budget? Our Budget? Broadening Political Stakeholdership via Participatory Budgeting |
| title_full | Whose Budget? Our Budget? Broadening Political Stakeholdership via Participatory Budgeting |
| title_fullStr | Whose Budget? Our Budget? Broadening Political Stakeholdership via Participatory Budgeting |
| title_full_unstemmed | Whose Budget? Our Budget? Broadening Political Stakeholdership via Participatory Budgeting |
| title_short | Whose Budget? Our Budget? Broadening Political Stakeholdership via Participatory Budgeting |
| title_sort | whose budget our budget broadening political stakeholdership via participatory budgeting |
| topic | participatory budgeting youth civic engagement participation stakeholders |
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