UW-Madison: Chicago’s participatory budgeting a positive, but incomplete, step toward inclusion

MADISON, Wis. – Street-level mobilization, an outreach strategy aimed at making participatory budgeting more inclusive, can only partially achieve its goal for marginalized groups, according to a multiyear ethnographic study in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood by Assistant Professor Denia Garcia of the La Follette School of Public Affairs. Participatory budgeting is a practice in which citizens ...