Participatory Budgeting in the United States: What Is Its Role? (Spring 2013)

“Now is not the time to be creative,” said Vallejo mayor Osby Davis, when his city became the first in the nation to use Participatory Budgeting. But judging from its success, the time seems ripe for this experimental form of local governance, in which citizens actively work together to allocate city funding to projects. by Daniel Altschuler, PhD