The Transformative Potential of Participatory Budgeting: Creating an Ideal Democracy

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George Robert Bateman, Jr. (University of Missouri - Kansas City, USA)

The Transformative Potential of Participatory Budgeting

Creating an Ideal Democracy

George Robert Bateman, Jr. (University of Missouri - Kansas City, USA)

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Routledge
30 June 2021

Political science & theory; Political structures: democracy; Regional government; Political economy

Series: Routledge Research in Public Administration and Public Policy

In this book, George Robert Bateman, Jr. presents a philosophical examination of the potential benefits of participatory budgeting (PB), with recommendations of how they might be realized.

The work of social philosophers like Thomas Jefferson, John Dewey, Robert Putnam are studied to better understand the potential benefits and their effect on individuals and communities. Using social provisioning and John Fagg Foster’s theories of instrumental value and institutional adjustment, Bateman demonstrates how participatory budgeting in New York City (PBNYC) can realize its full potential and transform individual participants into their better selves and also transform their communities. This transformation can occur when participants are able to make decisions about things that matter in their lives. As more of us become empowered and actively engaged in deliberations concerning local economic/political issues the more we will experience public happiness, greater understanding of others, greater development of our morality, and an increased sense of belonging.

The Transformative Potential of Participatory Budgeting will be of great interest to scholars in the fields of normative political theory, political philosophy, local politics, heterodox economics, institutional economics, political sociology, urban sociology, and community sociology.

By: George Robert Bateman Jr. (University of Missouri - Kansas City USA)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 213g
ISBN: 9781032083278
ISBN 10: 1032083271
Series: Routledge Research in Public Administration and Public Policy
Pages: 148
Publication Date: 30 June 2021
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction 2. Theoretical Framework 3. How Can the Hypothesis be Tested? 4. Public Happiness 5. Understanding of Others 6. Individual and Community Morality 7. A Sense of Belonging 8. Conclusion

George Robert Bateman, Jr. earned his Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City (UMKC) in 2018 through an interdisciplinary program with economics as his primary discipline and political science as his co-discipline.

Reviews for The Transformative Potential of Participatory Budgeting: Creating an Ideal Democracy

'Bateman's contribution here is significant. His blend of pragmatic and normative questions offers useful insights to both political theory and institutional design. The Transformative Potential of Participatory Budgeting makes an important, timely, and convincing argument about the need for more democratic participation. If it combines this with further thought about how to redress power inequities both in deliberation and in wider society, it can offer a new way of thinking about politics to faculty and students from a range of disciplines.' Democratic Theory