Participatory Budgeting

In the past three or four decades, public finance theorists and practitioners have struggled to identify and design institutional arrangements to help close the gap between the preferences of voters and the mix of public services actually delivered. Participatory budgeting is potentially a good approach. This book presents an authoritative guide to the principles and practice of participatory budgeting, providing a careful analysis of the potentials of participatory budgeting in strengthening inclusive and accountablegovernance as well as risks associated with interest group capture of participatory processes. For interested policy makers and practitioners, the book presents the QUOTEnuts and boltsQUOTE of participatory budgeting. It provides a regional survey of such practices worldwide anddraws lessons from seven individual country case studies. A CD-ROM included with the book contains these seven country case studies on Bangladesh, India, the Philippines, Russia, South Africa, Thailand and the Ukraine.Shah, Anwar is the author of 'Participatory Budgeting ', published 2007 under ISBN 9780821369234 and ISBN 0821369237.