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Nine participatory budget (Spanish acronym PP) polling processes in Mexico City's 1,800 territorial units ended with works and services mostly induced by the authorities, with scant participation by the public, without building identity or social fabric, and with limited appropriation of the participatory mechanism. This article's general objective is to analyze the relationship between participation and citizen empowerment in participatory budgets, considering limiting factors and obstacles, and those that promote and strengthen these two processes. Based on a detailed study of five relevant experiences, using document analysis, newspaper coverage, interviews, and ethnography to characterize the cases, the authors identified the conditions and factors that produced the resulting projects; at the same time, they explored the spaces and formal processes that restrict citizen participation and inhibit empowerment. Illustrating strengths and weaknesses enhanced our knowledge of the difficulties faced in Mexico City before the 2019 reform and may help advance the debate to improve participatory budgets' implementation in the years ahead. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The new administration of the Municipality of Pudahuel, took the decision to implement a new deliberative budget management model, including the community as key actor in the prioritization of investment and spending of the 2023 municipal budget. Therefore, it was developed a virtual participation strategy, open to the community, and a strategy dedicated to special protection groups. With more than 1,200 participants and over 150 project initiatives, in this article, we analyze this pilot experience, contrasting it then, with the specialized literature, exploring possible factors that would explain this process and its results. The case study, is presented as an innovative experience of participatory budgeting for the Chilean context, considering that investment criteria would not be observed in the cases previously reported for this country; that is, allocate more resources to the sectors of greatest social vulnerability, which would change the scale of the decision; from a direct vote on a limited portion of the financial resources of a public entity (choosing to execute certain projects), to the prioritization of the major investment and spending guidelines of the total estimated annual budget. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article deals with the institutional design and public participation in Mexico City's participatory budget from 2011 to 2018. The authors compare the pertinent legislation from 2010 and 2019, as well as voting levels in the city since 2011. Voter participation in these public consultations has been very low due to the fact that both designs strengthened the faculties of the political-administrative bodies in each city district in the examination, execution, and supervisory phases of the selected projects; this discourages the empowerment of the citizenry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper assesses the impact that higher education funding has had in Medellin with resources from the participatory budget program during the 2007-2015 period. The short-term impact on employment, income, children, marital status and socio-economic mobilization is analyzed. For the above, the certified base of the Sisben 2015 and the base of enrolled in the program are used. The treatment eligibility rule is used, so a sharp discontinuous regression design is estimated. The results indicate that the non-eligible population in the margin is very similar to the eligible. The program reduces the probability of being employed and receiving income, as well as having children for women but increases the chances that low-income people can access the higher education and mobilization socioeconomic level. There is no evidence of any effect on marital status. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Participatory budgets have been the object of social and political interest, because of the opportunities they offer with regard to their potential for promoting an active, responsible citizenship with the capacity to influence public policies. They also suggest the possibility of formulating a model of participation that can result in the genesis of participatory democracy. The aim of this work is to assess the limits and potentialities of participatory budgets by analyzing the process developed in El Puerto de Santa María (Cádiz) between 2016 and 2017. The applied method includes analyses of participation data, citizen proposals and the degree of implementation of citizen proposals. The conclusions confirm that participatory budgets are experiences that nurture the notion of participatory democracy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper aims to discuss the idea of "construction of citizenship" that appears in contemporary participative experiences encouraged by local governments. The practices that are actually developed in the socalled "participatory mechanisms" suppose an enlargement but at the same time a reduction of the notion of citizenship. On the one hand, citizenship is conceived as "under construction": it does not depend on passive rights but on the involvement of citizens. On the other hand, it remains associated with practices of management of the immediate environment, where the citizen becomes a neighbor and his/her activity is identified with a complaint. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Document searches draw attention to the need to discuss, theoretically and practically, the challenges that must be faced by public administration in the management of preparing a budget by results and accountability, particularly when taking into account the useful tools in the process of ensuring "good government". To do this, a conceptual analysis of both tools was performed. Firstly, the management by results approach is presented, along with the challenges that this new framework involves for the public administration in relation to the optimisation of the use of public resources, to ensure a transparent and equitable process and to improve the performance of public bodies, becoming the basis for better accountability (the second aspect analysed in the document). Accountability becomes a challenge, on being an effective means of monitoring and sanctions between society and government, through which the public servants have to respond, explain and justify their actions, subjected to an ethical and juridical order, to the completing of objectives. It is here where the direct participation by the civil society is fundamental for the evaluation of the results. The document analyses these concepts at a time when our country has the improvement in the quality of public spending as a national priority. Thus, the results approach in the budget preparation has to be considered, by those responsible for economic policy, such as a key mechanism to achieve this, and in turn accountability is particularly linked, to the push that it attempt to give to social policy, as an important element in the administration for the management of public funds, which can help to ensure the effectiveness and transparency of these processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article provides an analysis of participatory institutions created in the local context during recent decades in Brazil in the context of urban politics. First, it describes the fundamental norms associated with democracy and participatory institutions and approach the role of institutional designs, their variations and potential for democratic radicalization. Then, urban politics are contextualized, pointing out the new legal frameworks that require participation and focusing on the design of institutions in this respect. Next, the article analyze key elements in participatory designs, comparing councils, conferences, participatory budgets and participation in master plans, questioning their reach and potential for democratization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article conceives 'proximity' as an emerging form of legitimacy, and the so-called 'participatory mechanisms' as their institutional crystallization. In the first part, the author proposes a characterization of the proximity principle; then, based on field work in the Argentine municipalities of Morón, Rosario and the City of Buenos Aires, demonstrates how the participatory mechanism, and especially the Participatory Budget, bring into play transformations in political legitimacy. The article demonstrates how the Participatory Budget institutionalizes a politics of the singularity of experience: in addition to the legitimacy of political party, collective-redistributive and technical or expert knowledge, there operates the legitimacy of the neighbor's concrete problems, the microterritory, and knowledge based on daily experience. Finally and based on this points, the author raises the question of contradiction, complementarity and interiority between representation and participation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This text is the product of the developments of the project entitled: "Evaluation and Monitoring of the Social and Community Work of the Beneficiaries of the Participatory Budget Fund Aimed At Pursuing Higher Education Studies Belonging to Commune One, Medellin," in Partnership with the Secretariat of Education in the City of Medellin. It is aimed at going beyond an assessment of procedures, objectives, and outcomes, and in doing so; explore some dimensions of citizen participation in decision making and community benefits that this brings to the specific case of the Higher Education Project in the Commune One. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]