Framing Citizen Participation

Originally developed in Brazil, participatory budgeting is widely recognised as democratic innovation yet its concrete results vary greatly. Collating evidence from empirical and theoretical analysis, this book aims to provide an explanation for these varied results by analysing participatory budgeting in France, Germany and the United Kingdom.

Autorentext
Anja Röcke is Assistant Professor at the Institute for Social Sciences, Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany. Her research deals with partipatory democracy and democratric innovations, more recently also sociology of education. She has studied different partipatory processes from Berlin citizern juries to participatory budgets in Europe and has widely published on thesen issues.

Inhalt
INTRODUCTION PART I: ANALYTIC FRAMEWORK: FRAMES, DIFFUSION AND DEMOCRATIC INNOVATIONS 1. Frames and Diffusion 2. Citizen Partixcipation and Democratic Innovations 3. A Democratic Innovation: PB in Porto Alegre PART II: THE INVENTION OF NATIONAL MODELS? PB IN FRANCE, GERMANY AND THE UNITED KINGDOM 4. France: With PB Beyond "Proximity"? 5. Germany: PB Between Consultation, Financial Squeeze and the "Citizens Town' 6. United Kingdom: PB as a Form of Community Empowerment? PART III: FROM FRAMES TO DEMOCRATIC INNOVATIONS? THREE LOCAL CASE STUDIES OF PARTICIPATORY BUDGETING 7. Participatory Democracy in Schools? The Case of Poitou-Charentes, France 8. Participatory Budgeting as Citizens' Town? The Case of Berlin Lichtenberg, Germany 9. Salford, England (United Kingdom): Participatory Budgeting as a Form of Top-Down Community Empowerment Conclusion