The People’s Budget - a cornerstone of democracy: Proma Roy & Ashley E. Nickels

Hollie Russon Gilman was quoted in the Cleveland on the benefits of participatory budgeting.

Archon Fung, the Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship and Self-Government at the Harvard Kennedy School, with co-author Orin Wright, argue that empowering individuals to deliberate and make decisions about public funds instills a sense of civic responsibility and empowerment. In the process, residents become informed about governmental procedures, encouraging them to gather, converse, and ultimately choose how to allocate budgetary resources. As Hollie Russon Gilman, senior fellow at the New America think tank, suggests, the participatory and deliberative elements of participatory budgeting can serve as a form of civic training, equipping residents with more knowledge, self-efficacy, and a reduced inclination toward anti-democratic sentiments.