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Improving social well-being through new democratic institutions

Michael Touchton; Brian Wampler · Comparative Political Studies 47(10), 1442-1469 · 2014

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Michael Touchton; Brian Wampler
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DOI 10.1177/0010414013512601
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2026-09-01

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EstablishedBrazilian municipalities that used participatory budgeting in 1990-2004 channelled a larger share of spending to sanitation and health and saw lower infant mortality; a separate study of Brazil's largest cities found the association strengthened the longer PB was in place.