Improved Governance? Exploring the Results of Peru's Participatory Budgeting Process.

The article explores the results of the participatory bugdeting (PB) process of Peru that had not been documented after ten years of implementation since 2003. It reveals that the PB is still dominated by elite actors that do no represent the diversity of the country's civil society sector. The lack of improvement of two important indicators of governance, sub-national conflict and trust in local institutions, are tackled.