Update on Participatory Budgeting in Chicago

May 29, 2009

The Watson Institute published an update on the participatory budgeting process that Gianpaolo and I are helping to plan in Chicago:

On April 29, Watson Institute Associate Professor Gianpaolo Baiocchi traveled to Chicago to help kick-start an experiment in democracy, along with Josh Lerner, from The New School for Social Research, and Karen Dolan, from the Institute for Policy Studies’ Cities for Progress project. Chicago’s 49th Ward is vying to become the first community in the US to use participatory budgeting to allocate its municipal budget funds. Alderman Joe Moore of the 49th Ward asked Baiocchi and his colleagues to train the community in participatory budgeting, a process in which residents directly decide how to spend public money.

Posted by jlerner at 8:31 AM | Permalink | RSS

Comments

so Joe Moore is open to participatory government. Check out his city council voting record. He votes for Daley. Daley is corrupt.deciding on a budget for 500,000 thousand that's chump change but it makes joe look very democratic.

Posted by: jonathan roth at June 10, 2009 10:27 PM





 

 

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