Bøker av Hollie Russon Gilman

Participatory budgeting empowers citizens to identify community needs, work with elected officials to craft budget proposals, and to vote on where and how to spend public funds. In this brief introduction, the author provides readers with everything they need to understand this new form of inclusive governance.

Participatory Budgeting-the experiment in democracy that could redefine how public budgets are decided in the U.S. "Reinvesting in Democracy"is the first comprehensive academic treatment of participatory budgeting in the United States, situating it within a broader trend of civic technology and innovation. This global phenomenon started in Brazil i