The Transformative Potential of Participatory Budgeting: Creating an Ideal Democracy

Bateman, George Robert, Jr.

ISBN 10: 1032083271 / ISBN 13: 9781032083278

Published by Routledge, 2021

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148 pages. 9.02x5.98x0.47 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Transformative Potential of Participatory Budgeting: Creating an Ideal Democracy
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032083271
• ISBN 13: 9781032083278
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.27 kilograms

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.