Participatory Breakthroughs and Reversals: A case study of participatory budgeting in Hamilton, Canada
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Participatory budgeting tends to manifest as a civic engagement tool governed by the state, but in Hamilton, Canada, a unique albeit short-lived public budgeting system jointly governed by state and civil society institutions was established. State and civil society actors struggled over who had power over the governance and administration of the system, and eventually the state actors dissolved the budgeting system and instituted a new one that excluded the civil society institutions. Public participation in the exclusively state-managed budgeting system dropped by 43%, and by the third year state actors were proposing to discontinue participatory budgeting. Civil society leaders rejected this proposal and demanded the continuation of participatory budgeting and the re-recognition of civil society institutions, which the state actors accepted. This thesis builds on the Hamilton case, democratic theory, and theory of the state and civil society to show a potential pathway from liberal to participatory democracy.
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Copyright © 2015 the author(s). Theses may be used for non-commercial research, educational, or related academic purposes only. Such uses include personal study, research, scholarship, and teaching. Theses may only be shared by linking to Carleton University Institutional Repository and no part may be used without proper attribution to the author. No part may be used for commercial purposes directly or indirectly via a for-profit platform; no adaptation or derivative works are permitted without consent from the copyright owner.
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