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Public Spending, By The People: Participatory Budgeting in the United States and Canada in 2014-15 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
From 2014 to 2015, more than 70,000 residents across the United States and Canada directly decided how their cities and districts should spend nearly $50 million in public funds through a process known as participatory budgeting (PB).
Carolin Hagelskamp   +3 more
core  

Markets Mitigate Land‐Use Competition From Energy Crops and Increase Farm Revenues

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Meeting the US Sustainable Aviation Fuel Grand Challenge target of 35 billion gal annually by 2050 will require an estimated 380 million–700 million dry tons of agricultural biomass feedstock. This study evaluates the implications of large‐scale biomass production for land use, crop production, and market outcomes under mature market ...
Daniel G. De La Torre Ugarte   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Accounting, accountants and accountability regimes in pluralistic societies: taking multiple perspectives seriously [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to synthesize work in the emerging field of how accounting and accountability can be reoriented to better promote pluralistic democracy which recognizes and addresses differentials in power, beliefs and desires of
Jesse Dillard   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Citizen Engagement for Social and Technological Innovation in Sustainable Energy Systems

open access: yesAdvanced Energy and Sustainability Research, EarlyView.
This study underscores the potential of citizen participation in the energy transition by providing insights to foster citizen‐driven innovation. An analysis of energy communities, one of the most dynamic innovations in the energy sector, reveals that these models can be citizen‐led initiatives regarding their operational and organizational structure ...
Ana Belén Cristóbal   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Power of Ambiguity: How Participatory Budgeting Travels the Globe

open access: yesJournal of Deliberative Democracy, 2012
From its inception in Brazil in the late 1980s, Participatory Budgeting has now been instituted in over 1500 cities worldwide. This paper discusses what actually travels under the name of Participatory Budgeting.
Ernesto Ganuza, Gianpaolo Baiocchi
doaj   +2 more sources

The Effect of Participatory Budgeting on Managerial Performance with Moderating Variables

open access: yesJurnal ASET (Akuntansi Riset), 2020
The research explains both the direct and indirect effects of participatory budgeting on managerial performance by examining organizational culture (people oriented versus job oriented), organizational commitment and perception of innovation that serves ...
Saripudin Saripudin, Dodik Siswantoro
doaj   +1 more source

Continuity and Change in World Bank Development Discourses and the Rhetoric Role of Accounting [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Purpose ? The paper traces how the World Bank has utilised accounting rhetoric/languages in articulating development discourses at different stages of global capitalism through the case study of development projects in Sri Lanka and published development
CCD   +7 more
core   +1 more source

Are all meats substitutes? A basket‐and‐expenditure‐based approach

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
Abstract This study examines the relationship among animal‐based meat and plant‐based meat alternatives (PBMAs) using a basket‐and‐expenditure‐based choice experiment. In particular, we examine whether animal‐based meat products are substitutes or complements with PBMAs.
Clinton L. Neill, Logan L. Britton
wiley   +1 more source

The effect of new technologies on civic participation models [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The development of new technologies will enable decentralization and freedom of communication for large numbers of people, by overcoming the barriers that once rendered direct participation of society unfeasible.
Holubiak, Nataliia
core   +3 more sources

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