Abstract This case study explores the use of a Participatory Budgeting process within a Canadian non-profit organization dedicated to prisoner reintegration. Participants—which included current and former federal prisoners as well as community members, all of whom regularly participate in the organization's activities—collectively decided how to spend approximately 5% of the...

This case collectively examines the three pilot projects of Democracy In Practice’s student government program which ran February through November of 2014 in three schools in the Cochabamba area of Bolivia. This program involved replacing student elections with lotteries in which government members were randomly-selected to serve a given term...