2016/07/04 by Stephen Coleman, Rafael Cardoso Sampaio · 3 citations
Social Sciences · #E-Government and Public Services #Public Policy and Administration Research #Social Media and Politics
paper · doi:10.1080/1369118x.2016.1203971
openalex publication_date 2016/07/04 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/04/05
This article explores the transition from democratic innovation to institutionalised political process of e-participatory budgeting in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Applying a multimethod approach (content analysis, interviews and social media monitoring) regarding the last three editions (2008, 2011 and 2013), it considers how the proponents and organisers of ePB conceive its function in relation to the representative mechanisms that surround it; how the citizens of Belo Horizonte have responded to it in relation to their experience of being represented; and how governments seeking to institutionalise democratic innovations with a view to establishing more direct forms of representation might learn from this exercise.