Participatory budgeting is a process designed to drive beneficial change through the input of ordinary citizens and the selection of a well-being- and agency-enhancing projects. Ideally this innovative democratic process realizes its aim and thereby achieves authentic development. Included in these likely and normatively desirable outcomes are valuable subjective states and objective outcomes. Citizens who participate in PB feel like agents, community groups function more cooperatively, and the community exhibits more and better democracy.