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Everyone Counts : Could "Participatory Budgeting" Change Democracy? / Josh Lerner.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Brown Democracy MedalPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (56 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780801456060
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 352.480973 23
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  • HJ2051 L47 2016
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Everyone Counts. Could “Participatory Budgeting” Change Democracy? -- This Is What Democracy Looks Like? -- Money Talks -- Importing Democracy from Brazil -- Coming to a City near You -- The Problems with Potholes -- Scaling Up Local Democracy -- Stepping Up -- Notes -- About the Author and the Participatory Budgeting Project
Summary: The Laurence and Lynne Brown Democracy Medal recognizes outstanding individuals, groups, and organizations that produce exceptional innovations to further democracy in the United States or around the world.The inaugural medal winner, the Participatory Budgeting Project (PBP), is an innovative not-for-profit organization that promotes "participatory budgeting," an inclusive process that empowers community members to make informed decisions about public spending. More than 46,000 people in communities across the United States have decided how to spend $45 million through programs that PBP helped spark over the last five years. In Everyone Counts, PBP co-founder and executive director Josh Lerner provides a concise history of the organization's origins and its vision, highlighting its real-world successes in fostering grassroots budgeting campaigns in such cities as New York, Boston, and Chicago. As more and more communities turn to participatory budgeting as a means of engaging citizens, prioritizing civic projects, and allocating local, state, and federal funding, this cogent volume will offer guidance and inspiration to others who want to transform democracy in the United States and elsewhere."The Participatory Budgeting Project exemplifies the essential features the award committee was looking for in its inaugural recipient. Political and economic inequality is part of the American national discussion, and participatory budgeting helps empower marginalized groups that do not normally take part in a process that is so critical for democratic life."— John Gastil, Director of the McCourtney Institute for Democracy
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Everyone Counts. Could “Participatory Budgeting” Change Democracy? -- This Is What Democracy Looks Like? -- Money Talks -- Importing Democracy from Brazil -- Coming to a City near You -- The Problems with Potholes -- Scaling Up Local Democracy -- Stepping Up -- Notes -- About the Author and the Participatory Budgeting Project

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The Laurence and Lynne Brown Democracy Medal recognizes outstanding individuals, groups, and organizations that produce exceptional innovations to further democracy in the United States or around the world.The inaugural medal winner, the Participatory Budgeting Project (PBP), is an innovative not-for-profit organization that promotes "participatory budgeting," an inclusive process that empowers community members to make informed decisions about public spending. More than 46,000 people in communities across the United States have decided how to spend $45 million through programs that PBP helped spark over the last five years. In Everyone Counts, PBP co-founder and executive director Josh Lerner provides a concise history of the organization's origins and its vision, highlighting its real-world successes in fostering grassroots budgeting campaigns in such cities as New York, Boston, and Chicago. As more and more communities turn to participatory budgeting as a means of engaging citizens, prioritizing civic projects, and allocating local, state, and federal funding, this cogent volume will offer guidance and inspiration to others who want to transform democracy in the United States and elsewhere."The Participatory Budgeting Project exemplifies the essential features the award committee was looking for in its inaugural recipient. Political and economic inequality is part of the American national discussion, and participatory budgeting helps empower marginalized groups that do not normally take part in a process that is so critical for democratic life."— John Gastil, Director of the McCourtney Institute for Democracy

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In English.

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