Participatory Budgeting: From Porto Alegre, Brazil to the U.S.

Submitted by ethan on Tue, 01/29/2008 - 21:29.

"Participatory democracy" is a central feature of the solidarity economy. In this essay, Mike Mensner and Juscha Robinson discuss this concept, focusing on the practice of "participatory budgeting," an innovation first made famous in Brazil but now spreading to more than 1,000 cities worldwide.