Participatory Budgeting and Civic Tech: The Revival of Citizen Engagement - Paperback

by Hollie Russon Gilman (Author), Hollie Russon Gilman (Contribution by)

Participatory budgeting empowers citizens to identify community needs, work with elected officials to craft budget proposals, and to vote on where and how to spend public funds. In this brief introduction, Hollie Russon Gilman provides readers with everything they need to understand this new form of inclusive governance.

Author Biography

Hollie Russon Gilman is a Democracy Fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, a Fellow at Georgetown University's Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation, and an inaugural Google.org Civic Innovation Fellow at the New America Foundation. She is the author of Democracy Reinvented and was previously the White House's Open Government and Innovation Advisor.