participatory budgeting
par-TIS-ih-puh-tor-ee BUJ-it-ing
pɑːrˈtɪsɪpətɔːri ˈbʌdʒɪtɪŋListen
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a democratic governance process in which community members directly decide how to allocate a portion of a public budget, typically at the municipal or neighbourhood level, through structured deliberation, proposal development, and direct voting on competing spending priorities; participatory budgeting was pioneered in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 1989 by the Workers Party administration as a tool of democratic deepening and pro-poor redistribution, and has since been adopted in thousands of cities across the world including New York, Paris, and Seoul; it is valued for enhancing civic engagement, improving the responsiveness of public spending to community priorities, building trust between citizens and government, and increasing transparency in budget processes that are typically opaque to the public
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