Aspects of the Implementation of Participatory Budgeting in Two Municipalities on the Buenos Aires Coast (2008–2014)
Participatory Budgeting constitutes a local governance tool that, following Medici (2011), can be defined as a mechanism for citizen participation which enables discussion on the destination of a percentage of the public budget to address urban problems through comanagement. It emerges in a context...
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Universidad Nacional de Rosario - Centro de Investigaciones Sociales (CIS) IDES /CONICET
2025
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.estudiossocialesdelestado.org/index.php/ese/article/view/400 |
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| Sumario: | Participatory Budgeting constitutes a local governance tool that, following Medici (2011), can be defined as a mechanism for citizen participation which enables discussion on the destination of a percentage of the public budget to address urban problems through comanagement. It emerges in a context of a crisis of representation as a strategy to regenerate the link between State and citizenry, broadening channels for intervention in decision-making. This article comparatively analyzes the implementation of Participatory Budgeting in the municipalities of La Costa and General Pueyrredón (Buenos Aires, Argentina) between 2008 and 2014. The selection of these jurisdictions is based on comparing cases with common characteristics –namely, a coastal location and a tourism-oriented economy–but with significant differences in terms of scale, institutional organization, and urban challenges. The methodological strategy combined the collection and analysis of primary data with secondary sources. The results demonstrate that, while in both cases this tool was conceived as a mechanism to strengthen the State-society link through the figure of the “genuine neighbor,” differences in institutional capacities, regulatory frameworks, implementation mechanisms, and municipal scale all influenced participation and project fulfillment, thus conditioning its consolidation as an instrument of political relegitimation. |
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