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Markus Holdo

Associate Professor | Senior Lecturer

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Contestation in Participatory Budgeting : Spaces, Boundaries, and Agency

Author

  • Markus Holdo

Summary, in English

Local political leaders as well as international organizations have embraced participatory budgeting in response to problems of political exclusion and citizens’ dissatisfaction with representative democracy. This article provides a framework to highlight important aspects of the politics of participation. The framework allows scholars to explore how factors external to spaces of participation interact with aspects of participation within them. The framework conceptualizes participatory budgeting as political spaces, whose boundaries are shaped by ideologies, interests, and patterns of social exclusion. In dynamic spaces, such boundaries are constantly renegotiated and contestation helps maintain their openness. In static spaces, by contrast, predefined boundaries are imposed on participants who may accept or reject them. Empirical examples of participatory budgeting illustrate the usefulness of this framework. The article ends by discussing key avenues for further research.

Publishing year

2020

Language

English

Publication/Series

American Behavioral Scientist

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Topic

  • Political Science

Keywords

  • participatory budgeting
  • contestation
  • inequality
  • inclusion
  • power

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0002-7642