Participatory budgeting (PB) is a type of citizen sourcing in which ordinary people decide how to allocate part of a municipal or public budget through a process of democratic deliberation and decision-making. These processes typically begin with a...
This is a list of votes held by major cities as part of a participatory budgeting process, where people living in the city are allowed to vote for a number of proposals, and the funded proposals are determined based on the votes. While not all...
Participatory budgeting experiments are experiments done in the laboratory and in computerized simulations, in order to check various ethical and practical aspects of participatory budgeting. These experiments aim to decide on two main...
Participatory budgeting ballot types are the different ballot types (input formats) in participatory budgeting used for preference elicitation i.e. how each voter should express his or her preferences over the projects and how the budget should be...
As of 2015, over 1,500 instances of participatory budgeting (PB) have been implemented across the five continents. While the democratic spirit of PB remains the same throughout the world, institutional variations abound. For example, the Dominican...
Combinatorial participatory budgeting, also called indivisible participatory budgeting or budgeted social choice, is a problem in social choice. There are several candidate projects, each of which has a fixed costs. There is a fixed budget, that...
Participatory democracy, participant democracy, participative democracy, or semi-direct democracy is a form of government in which citizens participate individually and directly in political decisions and policies that affect their lives, rather...
In 2013, the city of Vallejo, California, became the first municipality in the United States to adopt a wide participatory budgeting, a process in which citizens decide to vote where a portion of their tax money can be allocated. One of the goals of...
Multiwinner approval voting, sometimes also called approval-based committee (ABC) voting, is a kind of multiwinner elections in which the voters cast approval ballots. In multiwinner voting there is a set of candidates, and each voter votes by...
The method of equal shares (MES) is a participatory budgeting algorithm specifically designed to guarantee extended justified representation (a form of proportional representation). It was originally developed for committee elections (under the name...