Participatory Budgeting and Perceptions of Agency: An Empirical Evaluation
Town hall meeting expert Frank Bryan (1999) has acknowledged that “the study of real democracy is in desperate need of data” and of a development of empirical parameters (p. 197). Similarly, as noted in Chapter 1, participatory budgeting experts Baiocchi, Heller, and Silva (2010) have contended that “ideas of participatory democracy are strong on theory and moral-philosophical founding, but rather weak on evidence and empirical testing” (p. 1). While that desideratum has been clearly set out, other scholars, such as.