Real Money, Real Power?
The Challenges with Participatory Budgeting in New York City
Offers an investigative, behind-the-scenes look at New York City's participatory budgeting (PB) process, which takes readers through an entire annual cycleProvides a clear account of issues related primarily to transparency, manipulation, and favoritism that are not commonly acknowledged in the PB literatureProvides a critical review of the experience of the asserted beneficiaries of participatory budgeting and reveals a variety of barriers to actually achieving those benefits Recommends substantial reform, specifically as it pertains to a lack of transparency, manipulation by city agencies, favorable treatment of insider proposed projects, and a failure to reveal the basis of project costs
| Autor: | Waisanen, Don Williams, Daniel |
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| ISBN: | 9783030592004 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 112 |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Springer International Publishing |
| Veröffentlicht: | 29.10.2020 |
| Untertitel: | The Challenges with Participatory Budgeting in New York City |
| Schlagworte: | Participatory Budgeting Public budgeting Public finance civic/public engagement interest groups participatory budgeting implementation participatory budgeting process participatory democracy public policy taxation |
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