Participatory Budgeting in Porto Alegre, Brazil
Case details
- Resource system
- Municipal financial system
- Resource units
- Money (public)
- Location
- Porto Alegre, Brazil (Brazil)
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Description
This case was originally researched and compiled for the SES Library by Matt Cohen in 2013 for the Arizona State University course SOS 591: Applied Robustness Analysis in Social Ecological Systems.
The resource appropriated is the city's municipal budget. Local laws enable a participatory process in which citizens influence budget allocations through collaborative deliberation. Citizens holding neighborhood-scale interests deliberate on allocations of the city-wide budget, a finite resource.
Institutional analysis
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System representation
Resource system
Municipal budget allocations
Resource users
Citizens influence budget decisions; municipal councils (local legislative branch) approve final budget.
Public infrastructure
The participatory process is the public infrasturucture. The process is defined through municipal laws/codes/ordinances. The participatory process has its own internal rules and structures.
Public infrastructure providers
Municipal government
Relationship 1
Citizens influence decisions on budget allocations.
Relationship 2
Municipal government acknowledges citizen power. Citizen buy-in legitimizes government decisions.
Relationship 3
Municipal government legitimizes participatory process and structures system of deliberation through laws/codes/ordinances
Relationship 4
Municipal codes dictate what percentage of the budget is open for public deliberation.
Relationship 5
Process structure dictates forms of participation: direct vs. representative
Relationship 6
Process structure dictates who participates when, how, and in what settings.
Exogenous drivers (7) - Resource
(none specified)Exogenous drivers (7) - Infrastructure
(none specified)Exogenous drivers (8) - Users
(none specified)Exogenous drivers (8) - Providers
(none specified)Human infrastructure (users)
(none specified)Human infrastructure (providers)
(none specified)Sources
Contributors
- Ute Brady, Arizona State University
- Matthew Cohen, Arizona State University
Bibliography
- (1998). Participatory Budgeting in Porto Alegre: Toward a Redistributive Democracy. Politics & Society. 26 (4) : 461-510
- (2001). Participatory budgeting in Brazilian cities: Limits and possibilities in building democratic institutions. Environment and Urbanization. 13 (1) : 159-184
- (2004). Participatory budgeting: A significant contribution to participatory democracy. Environment and Urbanization. 16 (1) : 27-46
- (2013). Managing the Urban Civic Commons: Participatory Budgeting in Porto Alegre, Brazil.