Research Summary 4, Budgets and Ballots in Brazil: Participatory Budgeting from the City to the State, IDS Working Paper no. 149.

• From: Department for International Development
• Published: 1 January 2001

• Country: Brazil
• Document Type: Working Paper
• Theme: Governance and Conflict
• Authors: Schneider, A., Goldfrank, B.

Abstract

This paper explores the process of scaling up arrangements for participatory budgeting (PB) from municipal to state level in Rio Grande do Sol (Brazil); and considers the impact of PB on institutions, politics and the distribution of resources for development. It suggests that PB has given previously marginalised groups access to decision-making fora; enhanced government accountability; and promoted redistribution to the poor while improving planning and budgetary efficiency. It attributes the success of scaling up to the fact that PB advances a political project that includes a popular vision of democracy and a redistributive vision of development, and has also attracted support from better off voters by promoting transparency and efficiency.

This is a two-page summary of a paper which can be accessed in full on this page.

Citation

Brighton, UK: Institute of Development Studies, 2 pp.

Links

Research Summary 4, Budgets and Ballots in Brazil: Participatory Budgeting from the City to the State, IDS Working Paper no. 149.

Published 1 January 2001