City Charters are Deliberative Democracy’s Friends. Allen Lab Fellow Tyler Fisher examines the untapped potential of city cha ...

The City of Cambridge allocated over $1 million to seven city improvement projects in its annual Participatory Budgeting process Friday. Winning projects, nearly all of which each earned more than ...

The last year has seen a call to defund the Chicago police and reallocate funds to mental health and community services. And while that call has not been answered, it has placed the city’s budget ...

In April, the New York City Council completed its eighth annual cycle of participatory budgeting, a process through which city residents vote directly on how they would like to see a designated ...

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SOMERVILLE — The city has launched its second cycle of "participatory budgeting," a program that sets aside $1 million in the city budget for residents to propose and vote on hand-picked projects.

The year 2020 was challenging for most of us and, when people are suffering, they tend to blame their governments – local, state, and federal. If we’re being honest, however, trust in our governmental ...

Martha Silva and Tara Lentz are co-executive directors of Conexión Américas. Kenya McGruder is director of civic and community engagement at the Urban League of Middle Tennessee. “This is what ...

Detroit Mayor Mary Sheffield delivered her first State of the City address on March 31, 2026, at Mumford High School on the city’s northwest side. In the speech, Sheffield touted the accomplishments ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Gov. Mike DeWine has signed a bipartisan bill that would block many Ohio cities, if not all of them, from passing participatory budgeting measures, like the “People’s Budget” city ...