Participatory Budgeting: From Porto Alegre, Brazil to the U.S.
Mike Mensner, Juscha Robinson, September 2010
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Summary :
« Participatory democracy » is a central feature of the solidarity economy. In this essay, Mike Mensner and Juscha Robinson discuss this concept, focusing on the practice of « participatory budgeting, » an innovation first made famous in Brazil but now spreading to more than 1,000 cities worldwide.
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