Deepening Democracy
Institutional Innovations in Empowered Participatory Governance
Archon Fung & Erik Olin Wright
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Real Utopias case studies including Porto Alegre participatory budgeting, Chicago decentralization, and Kerala governance.
Empirical companion to our Participatory Budgeting best practice — institutional design for empowered participation.
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