Participatory budgeting and its features: from Porto Alegre to modern Europe
https://doi.org/10.17803/2311-5998.2021.83.7.119-126
Abstract
The article deals with the features of participative budgeting as a relatively new experiment in the sphere of participative democracy. It's pointed out that this democratic form was initiated in 1989 in а Brazilian city Porto Alegre and then it was spread not only over Latin America but also over other continents. Special attention is paid to the countries of Europe where participative budgeting was implemented most actively. Positive features of participative budgeting as well as its possible disadvantages are analyzed.
The author argues that participative budgeting being one of the forms of participative democracy remains at the same time closely tied to the institutions of representative democracy. The initiator of its implementation remains most often municipal executive power as a whole or its individual representatives and first of all heads of local administration.
About the Author
A. I. Cherkasov
Institute of State and Law, RAS
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Leading Research Fellow, Human Rights Department of the Institute of State and Law, RAS, Cand. Sci. (Law).
10, ul. Znamenka, Moscow, 119019.
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Cherkasov A.I. Participatory budgeting and its features: from Porto Alegre to modern Europe. Courier of Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL)). 2021;(7):119-126. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.17803/2311-5998.2021.83.7.119-126
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