Participatory Budgeting in the Global South: towards a new international diffusion

Abstract

Participatory Budgeting (PB) is a practice built on the precepts of deepening democracy and spatial justice, which emerged in Brazil at the end of the 1980s. As such, PB spread throughout the country and the world, at first as a banner for the possibility of reinventing democracy beyond the limitations of the liberal model. However, some political processes caused this instrument to change, as it spread around the world, while at the same time losing strength and effectiveness in Brazil. This work is dedicated to promoting reflections on the processes of expansion and decay of the PB in Brazil and around the world, as well as the possibilities of rethinking this instrument from a popular and democratic conception anchored in the Global South.