Papers

    English
-- Abers, Rebecca. Text about 11 years of PB in Porto Alegre. Article with 16 pages about the PB in Porto Alegre within the political context, with bibliography. 2001.
-- Abers, Rebbeca. Interviews about PB with 3 PT mayors in Porto Alegre, from 1989 to 2002 (Olívio Dutra, Tarso Genro, Raul Pont). 2001.
-- Abers, Rebecca. Difficulties in the introduction and implementation of the PB in Porto Alegre. Talk by Rebecca Abers in the Latin American Studies Congress Miami. 2000.
-- Abers, Rebecca. Learning democratic practice: distributing government resources through popular participation in Porto Alegre, Brasil. In Douglas, M. & Friedmann, J. (ed.). Cities for Citizens: planning in the rise of civil society in a global age. Chichester (UK): John Wiley & Sons, 1997.
-- Abers, Rebecca. From ideas to practice: the PT and participatory governance in Brazil. In Latin MAreican Perspectives, vol. 23:4 (35-53), 1996.
-- Alvarez, Sonia, Dagnino, E. & Escobar, A. Culture of Politics/Politics of Culture. Boulder: Westview Press, 1998.
-- Avritzer, Leonardo. New Public Spheres in Brazil: Local Democracy and Deliberative Politics. 2002
-- Avritzer, Leonardo. New Public Spheres in Brazil: Local Democracy and Deliberative Politics. 2002.
-- Avritzer, Leonardo. Civil Society, Public Space and Local Power: a study of the Participatory Budget in Belo Horizonte and Porto Alegre. 2000.
-- Avritzer, Leonardo. Public Deliberation at the Local Level: Participatory Budgeting in Brazil. 1999.
-- Avritzer, Leonardo. Modes of Democratic Deliberation: theoretical remarks on participatory budgeting in Brazil.
-- Baiocchi, Gianpaolo. Participation, Activism, and Politics: The Porto Alegre experiment and Deliberative Democratic Theory. 1999.
-- Camach, P. Brazil: the long march to the new republic. In New Left Review (190): 21-58, 1990.
-- Connif, M. & MacCann, F. Modern Brazil: Elites and masses in historical perspectives. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989.
-- Goldfrank, Benjamin. Deepening Democracy Through Citizen Participation? A Comparative Analysis of Three CitiesComparing PB in Montevideo, Caracas and Porto Alegre (working draft). 2001.
-- Goldsmith, William W. Participatory Budgeting in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Planners Network Online, no. 140. March/April, 2000.
-- Goldsmith, William W. PB and community policy in Porto Alegre. 2000.
-- Fung, A. & Wright, E. Experiments in empowered deliberative democracy. Wisconsin, 1999.
-- Gay, R. Popular Organization and Democracy in Rio de Janeiro. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994.
--Khosla, Prabha. Water, equity and money:The need for gender-responsive budgeting in water and sanitation. Netherlands Council of Women March 2003
-- Mainwaring, S. Clientelism, patrimonialism and economic crisis: Brazil since 1979. Washington: LASA, 1990.
-- Navarro, Zander. Participation, democratizing practices and the formation of a modern polity - the case of ‘participatory budgeting’ in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Development, London: Sage, volume 41, number 3, September, 1998, p. 68-71.
--Nieuwland, Hendrik. A Participatory Budgeting Model For Canadian Cities: Improving Representation
Through Increased Citizen Participation In The Municipal Budgeting Process. Toronto, 2003.
-- Osborne, D. & Gaebler, T. Reinventing government: how the entrepreneurial spirit is transforming the public sector. New York: Addison-Wesley Publishing company, 1992.
-- Santos, Boaventura de Souza. Participatory Budgeting in Porto Alegre: Toward a Redistributive Democracy. Politics & Society: Stoneham, p.461-510, December 1998.
-- Sheth, D.L. Micro-Movements in India: Towards a New Politics of Participatory Democracy. 2002.
--Schugurensky, Daniel. Participatory Budget: A tool for democratizing democracy.Toronto Metro Hall, April 29, 2004.
--Schugurensky, Daniel. Citizenship Learning and Democratic Engagement: Political Capital Revisited. 2000 AERC Proceedings .
-- Singer, Paul. Budgeting and Democracy. Revista Economia Política, São Paulo. Vol.16, n.3, p. 20-30, July-Sept./1996
-- Starret, David. Foundations of Public Economics. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
-- de Souza, Marcelo Lopes. The spatiality of participatory budgeting: a research agenda. Terra Livre, São Paulo, 15: 39-58. 2000. (Relation between space and PB. Also the most frequent critiques to PB. Article in Portuguese, summary in English and Spanish)
-- UN Habitat II, Chegendu Conference. Document about Porto Alegre and PB, presented at the United Nations Conference Habitat II. 2000.
-- UN Habitat II, Best Practices Database. Description of PB in Porto Alegre, by United Nations in several languages. 2002.
-- UNESCO. The Experience of the Participative Budget in Porto Alegre Brazil - Description of PB as best practice. 1996.
-- Wampler, Brian. A Guide to Participatory Budgeting. Description of PB, how it works, effects in the administration, results and possibilities of dissemination. 2000.
-- Weffort, F. Why democracy? In Stephan, A. Democratizing Brazil. New York: Oxford university Press, 1989.
-- Worldbank. Civic Engagement in Public Expenditure Management. Case Studies Porto Alegre Brazil: Participation in the Budget and Investment Plan. Study from the World Bank about PB in Porto Alegre: history, evolution process, critique.

    Spanish
-- Baratta, Tereza. Relatório del Encuentro de Trabajo Presupuesto Participativo en la Gestión Municipal. IBAM. Pobreza urbana y desarrollo, año 8, n.17, abril 1998, p. 99-101
-- Genro, Tarso. El mundo globalizado y el Estado necessario. Pobreza urbana y desarrollo. Año 8, n.17, abril 1998, p. 11-16
-- Godoy, Lilia. El presupuesto participativo como una herramienta fundamental de participación ciudadana. Responsabilidad, Buenos Ayres, n.23, p.5-6, otob./1999
-- Pires, Valdemir. Limites y potencialidades del presupuesto participativo. Revista International del Presupuesto Público, año XXVII, n.42, marzo-abril 2000, p. 81-122.

    Portuguese
-- Bittar, Jorge (org.) O modo petista de governar. São Paulo: PT - Teoria e Debate, 1992.
-- Daniel, Celso. As administrações democráticas e populares em questão. Santo André: mimeo 1991.
-- Fundação Prefeito Faria Lima - CEPAM - Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas de Administração Municipal. Orçamento Participativo: por uma gestão democrática. São Paulo: CEPAM, 1998.
-- Jacintho, Jussara. A participação popular e o processo orçamentário. Leme SP: LED Editora de Direito, 2000.
-- Pinto, Mara & Baratta, Tereza. (coord.) Entendendo e participando da elaboração do orçamento municipal. Rio de Janeiro: IBAM, OEA, 1998.
-- Pontual, Pedro. O processo educativo no orçamento participativo. Dissertação de Doutorado, PUC-SP, 2000.
-- Possa, Jorge. Orçamento Participativo: a construção da cidadania. Revista do Legislativo, n. 26 abri-dez./1999.
-- Santos, Carlos A. (org.) Democracia, participação e orçamento. Rio de Janeiro: IBAM, ENSUR: FICONG, 1998.
-- Utzig, José E. & Guimarães, R. Democracia e participação popular na esfera pública: a experiência de Porto Alegre. In Bonduki, N. (org.) Habitat: as práticas bem-sucedidas em habitação, meio ambiente e gestão urbana nas cidades brasileiras. São Paulo: Studio Nobel, 1996, p. 51-57.
-- Villas-Boas, R. (org.) Balanço das experiências de orçamento participativo nos governos locais. São Paulo: Pólis, 1999.
-- More Portuguese documents available here in PDF


    German
-- German documents available here in PDF

Journals

-- Abers, Rebecca. Daring Democracy. New Internationalist V.352, December 2002 pp 22-23.
-- Baiocchi,Gianpaolo. Emergent public spheres: Talking politics in participatory governance. American Sociological Review; Feb 2003; 68, 1; ABI/INFORM Complete pg. 52
-- Bahmueller, Charles F. Bahmueller explores the intellectual problems of teaching democratic citizenship. [features ] march–april 1998 • vol 2. no. 2
-- Ebdon, Carol & Franklin, Aimee. Searching for a Role for Citizens in the Budget Process. Public Budgeting & Finance / Spring 2004 34
-- Recife, Brazil: Gender and the Participatory Budget. Win News 29-3. Summer 2003
-- Koonings, Kees. Strengthening Citizenship in Brazil's Democracy: Local Participatory Governance in Porto Alegre. Bulletin of Latin American Research, Vol.23, No. 1, pp 79-99, 2004
-- Martin, Paul S. Voting's Rewards: Voter Turnout, Attentive Publics, and Congressional Allocation of Federal Money. American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 47, No. 1, January, 2003, pp 110-127
-- Munck, Ronaldo. Neoliberalism, necessitarianism and alternatives in Latin America: there is no alternative (TINA)? Third World Quarterly, Vol 24, No 3, pp 495–511, 2003
-- Osmani, Siddiq R. Expanding Voice and Accountability through the
Budgetary Process. Journal of Human Development, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2002.
-- Schugurensky, Daniel & Myers, John P. A framework to explore lifelong learning: the case of the civic education of civics teachers. INT. J. OF LIFELONG EDUCATION, VOL. 22, NO. 4 (JULY–AUGUST 2003), 325–352.
-- Teivainen, Teivo. The World Social Forum and global democratisation: learning from Porto Alegre. Third World Quarterly, Vol 23, No 4, pp 621–632, 2002
-- Torres, Carlos Alberto, Schugurensky, Daniel. THE POLITICS OF ADULT EDUCATION IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE: MODELS, RATIONALITIES AND ADULT EDUCATION POLICY IMPLEMENTATION IN CANADA, MEXICO AND TANZANIA. Comparative Education, 03050068, 1994, Vol. 30, Issue 2

Books, Exerpts

-- Garcia, Soledad. Cities and Citizenship. Cambridge: Blackwell Publishers. 1996.
-- Budlender, Debbie et al. How to do a gender-sensitive budget analysis:Contemporary research and practice. London: Australian Agency for International Development, Canberra and the Commonwealth Secretariat. 1998.

Thesis

-- Josh Lerner: Building a Democratic City

Presentations

-- WB Presentation about PB 1
-- WB Presentation about PB 2
-- Financial Planning at the City of North Vancouver
-- Participatory Budgeting in Guelph
-- Vancouver - City Choices 2004
-- Building a Democratic City - PB in Toronto
-- Schugurensky, Daniel. Enlightenment and engagement in adult education for democratic citizenship: Lessons from the Citizens' Forum and the Participatory Budget. CASAE-ACÉÉA National Conference 2001 - Twentieth Anniversary Proceedings.

Links

-- Orçamento Participativo: The remarkable experience of direct democracy in a Brazilian town
-- The Deliberative Democracy Project @ University of Oregon
-- Deliberative Democracy @ Wikipedia
-- Participatory Budgeting @ Università degli Studi di Siena
-- PB concepts, etc. (In German)
-- About PB. (In German, with bibliography)
-- Various texts in English, Portuguese and Spanish
-- City of Porto Alegre (In Portuguese)
-- Materials and information about an NGO that supports PB with seminars, workshops, etc. (In Portuguese, some texts in English)
-- Government of the State of Rio Grande do Sul. Information about the PB aat the state level (In Portuguese)
-- UNESCO Program Community Participation and Governance
-- PB in Germany, Nordrheim, Wesfalen, Bertelsmann Foundation. PB in six cities of different sizes
-- Projeto Democracia Participativa, L.Avritzer. Information about participatory democracy, looking into PB (In Portuguese)
-- Bertelsmann Foundation, Germany. Information about several projets
-- A rabble interview with Professor Daniel Schugurensky about bringing Brazilian-style participatory budgets to Canadian cities
-- RES PUBLICA: AN INTERNATIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR EDUCATION IN DEMOCRACY. Draft. December 17, 2003. Civitas: An International Civic Education Exchange Program of the Center for Civic Education
-- Gender Budgets: Definition