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CENTRO DE ESTUDOS SOCIAIS Laboratório associado

CENTRO DE ESTUDOS SOCIAIS Laboratório associado. "Participatory Budgeting as a standpoint to read new dialogic styles of local governance: a series of comparative analyses“ . Giovanni Allegretti. www.ces.uc.pt. THE FRAMEWORK.

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  1. CENTRO DE ESTUDOS SOCIAIS Laboratório associado "Participatory Budgeting as a standpoint to read new dialogic styles of local governance: a series of comparative analyses“ . Giovanni Allegretti www.ces.uc.pt

  2. THE FRAMEWORK The present world financial crisis raises issues related to the distribution of resources, especially in a country as Portugal whose GINI index (42) photographs a growing social inequality. Innovative strategies are especially needed in local administrative institutions, affected by diminishing transfers and self-funding opportunities. This challenge has been addressed worldwide by participatory mechanisms allowing citizens to share responsibilities in decision making.

  3. In the last 7 years, Participatory Budgeting (which entrust citizens on prioritisation and decision over public expenditures) has expanded faster than other tools becoming worldwide a BUZZWORD…

  4. Taking the form of an “ideoscape” (Appadurai 1991), signifying a political model which travels globally but only exists through local appropriation, and differentiation…

  5. Since 2002, CES started to analyse this phenomenon, through several comparative researches. • BETWEEN OLD AND NEW WORLD • The first of them – directed by Prof. Boaventura de Sousa Santos - was “Reinventing social emancipation”, which produced the first Portuguese book on PB “Democratizar a democracia” which became a landmark in the literature on participation, and source of inspiration for the first experience in Portugal (Palmela, 2003) COMPARING CITIES IN EUROPE • Another was "Participatory Budgets in an European Comparative Approach” (2009-2009), funded by the Marc Bloch Centre and the Boeckler Stiftung (coordinated by Prof. Yves Sintomer, while I coordinated the Italian and Portuguese units)

  6. At the same CES tried to contribute to deepen and expand the experiments trough providing TRAINING, CONSULTATICIES and ACTION-RESEARCH • The EQUAL-funded project “Orçamento Participativo Portugal” (cocoordinated with the Ngo IN-LOCO from Algarve) was a rewarded example between 2008/2009, which trained more than 50 Portuguese municipalities and contributed to the setting of PB in Lisbon, São Brãs de Alportel, Odivelas and Santa Leocadia (Viana). www.op-portugal.org

  7. But also produced the first national inquiry on 22 Portuguese PBs, and a SOFTWARE (INFO-OP) to help municipalities to conceive, manage and monitor a PB. Tomar (PSD)‏ Braga (PS)‏ Avis (CDU)‏ Batalha (PSD)‏ Castelo de Vide (PSD)‏ Lisboa (PS)‏ Marvão (PSD)‏ Carnide (Lisboa) (CDU)‏ Alvito (Independente)‏ Agualva (Sintra) (PSD)‏ Castro Verde (CDU)‏ Alcochete (CDU)‏ Aljustrel (CDU)‏ Palmela (CDU)‏ Serpa (CDU)‏ Sesimbra (CDU)‏ São Brás de Alportel (PS)‏ Castelo (Sesim.)(CDU)‏ Vila Real Sto. Antº (PSD)‏ S Sebastião (Set.) (CDU)‏ Faro (PS)‏ Santiago Cacém (CDU)‏ Fonte: Nelson Dias / Out.07

  8. The core idea is that a research needs empiric data to investigate – at the same time – two complementary fields of analysis Political-institutional sphere Sphere of social interactions • What happens inside the political institutions when participatory practices are experimented? • What happens inside the social fabric when participatory practices are experimented? PB, in fact, was born to challenge contemporarily the two spheres, and not just to “democratise democracy” and compensate the fading legitimacy of elected institutions…

  9. That’s why we started last April the 3 years FCT-funded project called: “Participatory Budgeting as innovative tool for reinventing local institutions in Portugal and Cape Verde? A critical analysis of performance and transfers”. THIS IS A PARADIGMATIC PROJECT FOR CES, because: 1) It is a project of action-research, which continuously uses its empiric data and its (partial and final) results as a tool to “incise” in the changes of political experimentations…

  10. …but also because: 2) It stabilizes the relationships with several traditional partners 2) It joins together the interests of different CES Working Groups and two CES Observatories, that on Participatory Practices and that on Local Powers.

  11. It is a “generated”, not a “created” project. In fact, the comparison with African PB is enrooted in previous international projects… It was born inside a previous project of “world mapping” of PB, and aims to have a “mirror” to reflect on Portuguese/European specificities of PB models, and on mutual TRANSFERS… Source:: World Report on PB (Inwent/CES, 2010)

  12. The new project is interested in creating indicators to measure a) the interdependence between the participatory processes and the configuration of administrative systems (electoral laws, political culture, financial structure, organizational autonomy) or

  13. but also criteria to analyse and measure b) the concrete outputs of PB in terms of territorial redistribution of resources and social justice, increase of public works sustainability, and new “perceptions” on institutional legitimacy.

  14. …and also in understanding c) the changing configuration of participation due to the new technologies (new audiences and exclusions, digital divides, traceability of expenses, new tools for control on implementation)

  15. …and also photographing d) the “marginalisation” and “sectorialisation” of participatory tools, in order to create a MAPPING of relationship between different instruments (Plans, Agendas XXI, PBs, thematic councils)

  16. The final aim is to contribute to understand the National panorama of participatory practices • the “volatility” and “fragility” of PB in the last years; • why the Portuguese EXPERIMENTS which survived are only the “decisional” ones, which can change the political culture more in depth; • If the “dead PBs” left permanent changes in the administration or in other participatory tools… Electoral years

  17. …and also how in the financial and administrative transformation PB was “squeezed” by different external forces which led to a general RECONFIGURATION OF THE MODEL within the original principles…

  18. with these ambitions …we set a multidisciplinary internal TEAM working between the two contexts (counting on sociologists, planners, anthropologists, political scientists, psychologists…) and several renown international consultants… and relationships with different WORKING GROUPS at CES, as those on “Participation and Multicultural Citizenship” or “Knowledge and Governance”.

  19. All this required to the comparative project on PB in Portugal and Cape Verde to became an “engine” for giving order and coherence to other parallel projects “Library of participatory policies of social inclusion” (coordinated by Prof. Boaventura de Sousa Santos) with funding of UCLG/CISDP - Barcelona “« La participation publique et le droit - approche comparative »,” (coordinated by the Institute for Constitutional Studies, Beijing). “PARLOCAL” (coordinated by the Province of MALAGA, Spain) with comparisons in Dominican Republic, Spain and Uruguay. PB in Portugal & Cape Verde “Espacio Politico y Presupuesto Participativo” (coordinated by IESA, Spain) with comparisons in France, Germany, Brazil and Canada. both in the field of academic international collaboration…

  20. … and also in terms of cooperation with local/international institutions (or civil society) in order to follow, monitor or conceive new experimentations TRAINING ON PB for LISBON PERSONNEL DEMO-Fest Imagenes y democracia en movimento PB in Portugal & Cape Verde UN-HABITA/CES HANDBOOK on PB (72 FAQs) Pilot-projects of PB in Sweden

  21. This series of interconnected researches looks to Participatory Budgeting as a “perspective” (or a prism) from which is possible to read the broader ongoing transformation of societal/political relations, but also the challenging of the evolution of administrative local bodies. It has the multiple goals of: 1) contributing to the enrichment of theory through empiric data and participative/qualitative observation 2) assessing public policies on which energies and resources are invested, in order to enrich them through statistical data and reflection 3) proposing advanced training for different actors 4) dissemination of information to vast audiences 5) placing Portugal at the “core” of an interconnection between international political/academic networks

  22. A reformatted “core” space for interconnection In this respect, the Observatory of Participatory Practice is being completely reformulate, through a tight link with the Ph.D. structure, so to become a new central tool for coordinating all these different opportunities… Thanks you very much! www.ces.uc.pt/opp giovanni.allegretti@ces.uc.pt

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