Everyone counts : could "participatory budgeting" change democracy? / Josh Lerner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lerner, Josh, 1978- author.

Series:

Brown Democracy Medal

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Budget process--United States--Citizen participation.

Budget process.

Political planning--United States--Citizen participation.

Political planning.

Local budgets--United States--Citizen participation.

Local budgets.

Political participation--United States.

Political participation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, New York : Cornell Selects, 2014.

Language Note:

English

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 5 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

Contents:

Front matter

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Brown Demiocracy Medal Winner"--Cover.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780801456053

0801456053

9780801456060

0801456061

OCLC:

895048999