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Apr 17, 2016

Is Showing Up Enough? Lessons from Mobilizing for Participatory Budgeting in Rural Kenya

In this post, Juliette Keeley, MPP ’17, explores the issue of elite capture in participatory budgeting processes. She highlights HKS Associate Professor of Public Policy Ryan…

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Jun 12, 2014

Participatory Budgeting: A Review of the Promise and Pitfalls

By Richa Mishra

In December 2013, the White House included Participatory Budgeting as a key initiative in its Second Open Government National Action Plan. As a follow-up, in May 2014, the Office of…

Harvard Ash Center in Challenges to Democracy

Jun 16, 2015

Cambridge Concludes its Inaugural Participatory Budgeting Effort

This post by Derek Pham continues our coverage of a new participatory budgeting (PB) initiative in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Residents were given the opportunity to decide how to allocate $500,000 between…

Harvard Ash Center in Challenges to Democracy

Nov 17, 2015

Participatory Budgeting in New York City Named Winner of the Roy and Lila Ash Innovation Award

This post was originally published on the Government Innovators Network Blog. The Government Innovators Network is a marketplace of ideas and examples of government…

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Jan 9, 2015

Cambridge is Next U.S. City Looking to Foster Engagement with Participatory Budgeting

This post by Derek Pham begins our coverage of a new participatory budgeting initiative in the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts. PB, as it is commonly referred to, was piloted by the…

Harvard Ash Center in Challenges to Democracy

Feb 19, 2014

Boston Launches First Youth-Driven Participatory Budgeting in the US

By Hollie Russon Gilman, PhD

There is a general sense that young people don’t want to engage in politics. And yet, we are seeing young people increasingly using new technologies to…