This book investigates participatory budgeting—a mainstay now of World Bank, UNDP, and USAID development programs—to ask whether its reforms truly make a di

Despite increasing interest in how involvement in local government can improve governance and lead to civic renewal, questions remain about participation's real

Since the 1960s, participatory discourses and techniques have been at the core of decision making processes in a variety of sectors around the world – a pheno

This special volume is dedicated to Geoffrey Chew who passed away on April 12, 2019, at age 94. He is best known as the architect and passionate champion of the

Matt Ryan’s landmark comparative review of participatory budgeting, or collective decisions on how public money is spent, reveals the factors behind its succe