A Model of Participatory Democracy: Understanding the Case of Porto Alegre

Enriqueta Aragones () and Santiago Sánchez-Pagés ()

ESE Discussion Papers from Edinburgh School of Economics, University of Edinburgh

Abstract: Participatory Democracy is a process of collective decision making that combines elements from both Direct and Representative Democracy: Citizens have the ultimate power to decide on policy and politicians assume the role of policy implementation. The aim of this paper is to understand how Participatory Democracy operates, and to study its implications over the behavior of citizens and politicians and over the final policy outcomes. To this end, we explore a formal model inspired in the experience of Participatory Budgeting implemented in the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre and that builds on the model of meetings with costly participation by Osborne, Rosenthal, and Turner (2000).

Keywords: Participatory Democracy; Porto Alegre; assembly; legislator (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D7 H0 R5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2004-10
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