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

Santiago Sánchez-Páges and Enriqueta Aragonès
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Enriqueta Aragones and Santiago Sánchez-Pagés

No 235, Working Papers from Barcelona School of Economics

Abstract: Participatory Democracy is a process of collective decision making that combines elements from both Direct and Representative Democracy: Citizens have the 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 by the experience of Participatory Budgeting implemented in the Brazilian city of Porto Alegre, that builds on the model of meetings with costly participation by Osborne, Rosenthal, and Turner (2000).

Keywords: Participatory Democracy; Retrspective voting; assembly; Legislator (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D7 H0 R5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-09
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