Immigrant Engagement in Participatory Budgeting in New York City

Hayduk, Ron; Hackett, Kristen A.; Folla, Diana Tamashiro

doi:10.1080/07393148.2017.1278855

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“…First employed by the Brazilian Workers’ Party in the late 1980s (Goldfrank 2011), PB has since spread around the world, with upwards of 8,000 efforts completed or ongoing as of 2018 (Dias and Júlio 2018). The literature indicates that high-quality PB implementations include four key features: (1) a commitment to allocate funds in a participatory manner and to let participants write key process rules (Lerner and Secondo 2012), (2) outreach that specifically targets and engages underrepresented and marginalized populations (Hayduk, Hackett, and Folla 2017; Kasdan and Markman 2017), (3) an appropriately sized operating budget to fund staff time and technical assistance (Gilman 2016, 130–33), and (4) a large and flexible budget to be allocated to community priorities that is not restricted to specific project types (Lerner and Secondo 2012; Su 2017a).…”

Section: Pursuing Transportation Justice: State- and Society-centric mentioning

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From Transportation Equity to Transportation Justice: Within, Through, and Beyond the State

Karner

London

Rowangould

et al. 2020

Journal of Planning Literature

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Transportation policies, plans, and projects all flow through state institutions because of the substantial cost of infrastructure and the need to assess transportation system performance, including equity implications. But environmental justice scholarship interrogates the state’s role in perpetuating injustice. Most research and planning practice related to transportation equity has relied upon state-sponsored analytical methods. Transportation planners and scholars can benefit from critical assessments of these approaches. We propose a shift in focus from transportation equity to a broader consideration of transportation justice that is more closely aligned with models of social change promulgated in the environmental justice literature and by related movements.

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Section: Pursuing Transportation Justice: State- and Society-centric mentioning

confidence: 99%

From Transportation Equity to Transportation Justice: Within, Through, and Beyond the State

Karner

London

Rowangould

et al. 2020

Journal of Planning Literature

147

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“…Studies document targeted efforts to include marginalized groups in the PB process (Augsberger, Collins, Gecker, Lusk, et al., ; Holdo, ); however, important structural barriers remain. Hayduk, Hackett, and Folla () studied New York City's PB process and found a lack of translation services, difficulty creating safe spaces for undocumented immigrants, and an inability to tackle larger issues facing immigrants as significant barriers.…”

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“We make a direct impact on people's lives”: Youth empowerment in the context of a youth‐led participatory budgeting project

Augsberger

Gecker

Collins

2018

Journal Community Psychology

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Participatory budgeting [PB] is a democratic process whereby community members determine how to spend governmental funds. Youth‐led PB is relatively new, occurring in select U.S. cities. During youth‐led PB, youth collect ideas, develop proposals, and advertise community improvement projects for which they, citywide, cast deciding votes. The study examined opportunities for the empowerment youth at each stage of a youth‐led PB project. Data collection included individual interviews with 31 youths and adult stakeholders, 3 focus groups with youths, and 7 observations of meetings. The data were analyzed using consensual qualitative research methods. Findings align well with the psychological empowerment literature and demonstrate several opportunities for empowerment throughout the PB project, including feeling in charge of the process, understanding and allocating resources, and influencing positive community change. Findings also demonstrate potential barriers to empowerment, including understanding bureaucratic decision making, and influencing policy. PB is relevant to furthering our understanding of the empowerment of youth. The youths who participated in the present study expressed feelings of competence, purpose, and an ability to use the skills learned to engage fellow youths in the PB process. Additional empirical research is needed to examine the dimensions of empowerment at each stage of the PB process.

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“…Both PBNYC and PB Chicago allocate capital works budgets of a similar scale, and the intentional strategies employed by PBNYC administrators to reach less politically and civically engaged residents and make the process more accessible are similar to those of PB Chicago. However, outreach efforts for PBNYC appear to have been strengthened by the prominent role played by grassroots organizations with strong community ties (Baiocchi and Summers ; Hayduk, Hackett, and Folla ; Kasdan et al ; Lerner and Secondo ; Weber, Crum, and Salinas ).…”

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Beyond the “Usual Suspects”? Reimagining Democracy With Participatory Budgeting in Chicago

Pape

Lim

2019

Sociological Forum

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This article examines whether democratic innovations in the United States attract citizens who are typically underrepresented within existing political institutions. We focus on participatory budgeting, an intervention where residents decide how to allocate a particular pot of public money. Taking "PB Chicago" as our case study, we use survey and interview data to examine whether organizers realized their stated goal of involving residents other than the "usual suspects." We find that residents who voted in PB Chicago were more often white, college educated, and from higher-income households relative to both the local population and politically active residents in Chicago. While these residents were not necessarily the most active across other stages of the PB Chicago process, we find little evidence that lower socioeconomic status and minority residents were accessing the civic learning and empowerment gains associated with participatory forms of democracy. Outreach made the process more inclusive but was insufficient to overcome several important structural constraints. Of particular note, the needs and interests of less privileged residents were not met by the narrow capital works focus of PB Chicago. We suggest that when implemented under such conditions, participatory budgeting risks deepening existing political and social inequalities.

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Immigrant Engagement in Participatory Budgeting in New York City

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From Transportation Equity to Transportation Justice: Within, Through, and Beyond the State

From Transportation Equity to Transportation Justice: Within, Through, and Beyond the State

“We make a direct impact on people's lives”: Youth empowerment in the context of a youth‐led participatory budgeting project

Beyond the “Usual Suspects”? Reimagining Democracy With Participatory Budgeting in Chicago

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