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Real Money, Real Power? - The Challenges with Participatory Budgeting in New York City (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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Real Money, Real Power? - The Challenges with Participatory Budgeting in New York City (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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New York City has the largest council-sponsored Participatory
Budgeting (PB) processes in North America. From its inception in
Brazil, PB was a process that empowered the least-advantaged
members of the community by providing a way to propose budget
allocations through voting. This book reports on a
multi-methodological study of New York City's participatory
budgeting (PB) process from the perspective of a city resident over
time. A participatory budgeting slogan purports that the initiative
offers "real power" and "real money" to constituents at a local
level. To critically examine such top-down assertions, and
different than much that has been written about PB, this book
researches and navigates its events the way a member of the
community would see it. The study reveals a lack of transparency,
manipulation by city agencies, the favorable treatment of insider
proposed projects, and a failure to reveal the basis of project
costs. It also finds that there is no singular participatory
budgeting project in New York City. Instead, there are numerous
participatory budget projects, as many as there are council members
who engage in the practice. This book provides a ground-level view
of these limitations and recommends substantial reform.
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