Markus Holdo
Docent | Universitetslektor
Contestation in Participatory Budgeting : Spaces, Boundaries, and Agency
Författare
Summary, in Swedish
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.
Publiceringsår
2020
Språk
Engelska
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
American Behavioral Scientist
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
SAGE Publications
Ämne
- Political Science
Nyckelord
- participatory budgeting
- contestation
- inequality
- inclusion
- power
Aktiv
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0002-7642