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The Transformative Potential of Participatory Budgeting: Creating an Ideal Democracy

The Transformative Potential of Participatory Budgeting: Creating an Ideal Democracy

Bateman Jr, George Robert

Paperback

Series: Routledge Research in Public Administration and Public Polic

Medical ReferenceGeneral Political ScienceUnited States Politics

ISBN10: 1032083271
ISBN13: 9781032083278
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 30 2021
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

In this book, George Robert Bateman, Jr. presents a philosophical examination of the potential benefits of participatory budgeting (PB), with recommendations of how they might be realized.

The work of social philosophers like Thomas Jefferson, John Dewey, Robert Putnam are studied to better understand the potential benefits and their effect on individuals and communities. Using social provisioning and John Fagg Foster's theories of instrumental value and institutional adjustment, Bateman demonstrates how participatory budgeting in New York City (PBNYC) can realize its full potential and transform individual participants into their better selves and also transform their communities. This transformation can occur when participants are able to make decisions about things that matter in their lives. As more of us become empowered and actively engaged in deliberations concerning local economic/political issues the more we will experience public happiness, greater understanding of others, greater development of our morality, and an increased sense of belonging.

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