New York is a flagship city within the international calender of Participatory Budgeting. Every years millions of dollars are being distributed. While PB in individual boroughs have been running for many years, this week, as reported in the Bronx Daily:…
Leith Chooses, (branded at £LeithChooses) in Edinburgh council has moved to the online voting phase after its public voting event. 30 projects are in the shortlist for this year. They are each seeking a grant of up to £5,000 from…
Edinburgh council has been moving forward with its plans to introduce a visitor levy, sometime known as a tourist tax. It hopes to raise over £50m through the levy, and there are reported plans that £2million of the money raised…
Through the OmaStadi platform, residents of Helsinki can propose how the city should spend 10 million euros. All residents of Helsinki aged 13 and over are eligible to take part. Proposal can be submitted between September 22nd and October 5th,…
Voting is now open for Tallinn’s 2025 participatory budget. All residents aged 14 and above can choose 3 ideas. A total of €1 million has been earmarked in the city budget for implementing the winning projects. Of this amount, 75…
Through Metro’s Nature in Neighborhoods Community Choice Grants, community members imagine, design and choose parks and nature projects in greater Portland. Their ideas and votes have the power to help shape the future parks and natural areas in your neighborhood. …
Governments increasingly combine deliberative and direct-democratic instruments to address democratic dissatisfaction and declining political trust. However, how the general public evaluates these hybrid democratic innovations in relation to their political support remains largely unexplored. This study, by Jelle Turkenburg, called…
The Scottish Government commissioned an independent evaluation report of the Just Transition Fund for the North East and Moray. The evaluation assessed the impact of the Fund in its first two years of operation (2022-2024), during which it supported a…
By Andrea Correa / 23 June 2025 / OMFIF website In a recent article Andrea Correa, Senior Economist, at the Economic and Monetary Policy Institute comments on the challenges facing government when it tries to shift from spending to an…
People Powered compile research and synthesize key findings about the impacts of participatory democracy around the world, and make them accessible for practitioners and researchers to better understand and advocate for participatory and deliberative programs. Read their 2025 research brief on…