This paper analyzes the institutionalization of participatory budgeting (PB) as a policy problem. Based on the question of what factors influence the PB’s institutionalization?, it is argued that the incentives for mayors to transfer decision-making authority to citizenship and the autonomous organizational capacity of civil society are determining factors of such institutionalization. At the theoretical level, it’s adopted a neo-institutionalist approach, based on the notion of the logic of appropriateness and complemented with the analysis of the internal dimension of the institutionalization process. At the methodological level, it’s adopted a deductive approach and a case study strategy. At the empirical level, the case of Pasto (Colombia) is documented through interviews and documentary review. Among other things, this analysis allows to conclude that the institutionalization constitutes a complex problem that, under the continuous tension between context, agents and institution, articulates stabilization and change dynamics.
Keywords:
Institutionalization, Public Policy, Participatory Budgeting
Rodrigues de Caires, C. M. (2018). The Institutionalization of Policies: Analysis of the Participatory Budgeting in Pasto (1995-2016). Journal Studies of Public Policy, 4(1), 46–62. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-6296.2018.48661
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