International Research Fellowship Program: Participatory Decision-Making Venues: A Comparative Analysis of Brazil's Participatory Budgeting

[03:18 . 49]国际研究奖学金计划使美国科学家和工程师能够到国外进行3至24个月的研究。该计划的奖励为联合研究提供了机会，并利用独特或互补的设施、专业知识和国外的实验条件。该奖项将支持Brian D. Wampler博士与巴西圣保罗大学的Pedro R. Jacobi博士进行为期12个月的研究。自1985年巴西向民主统治过渡以来，参与式决策机构在市级政府中激增。这些制度中最著名的是参与式预算（PD），它允许公民审议公共资源的分配。PB已经在100多个城市实施，这使我们能够开始建立关于PB如何改变地方政治的一般性理论。该项目的目标是通过对所有已知的参与式预算案例中的政府官员和参与者进行调查，对参与式预算进行首次大规模的综合研究。PI还将对8至12个具有代表性的案例进行深入分析，以确定公民社会活动家如何与政治改革者在共同努力推动政治变革的过程中相互作用。他将使用访谈、预算分析和参与者调查。这项研究将有助于政治科学中更广泛的理论辩论。

0301849WamplerThe International Research Fellowship Program enables U.S. scientists and engineers to conduct three to twenty-four months of research abroad. The program's awards provide opportunities for joint research, and the use of unique or complementary facilities, expertise and experimental conditions abroad. This award will support a twelve month research fellowship by Dr. Brian D. Wampler to work with Dr. Pedro R. Jacobi at University of Sao Paulo in Brazil.Participatory policy-making institutions have proliferated at Brazil's municipal level of government since its transition to democratic rule in 1985. The best known of these institutions, Participatory Budgeting (PD), allows citizens to deliberate over the distribution of public resources. PB has been implemented in over 100 municipalities, which now allows us to begin to build generalizeable theories about how PB is transforming local politics. The goal of this project is to undertake the first large-scale comprehensive study of Participatory Budgeting based on the application of a survey to government officials and participants in all known cases of PB. The PI will also conduct an in-depth analysis of eight to twelve representative cases to ascertain how civil society activists interact with political reformers in their mutual efforts to promote political change. He will use interviews, budget analysis and participant surveys. This research will contribute to broader theoretical debates in political science.