Impacto y capacidad transformadora de los Presupuestos Participativos

Neoliberal Globalization creates problems that have local repercussions which requires to be managed locally. However, the decentralization of the responsibility rarely implies a decentralization of the resources and decision-making powers, so it implies a structural division between state and society.

In this situation, it is necessary that the majority of the worker population participate in the policy decision-making process. To democratize, radically, the democracy in order that citizenship expresses its wishes/requirements through their direct participation in the decisions on public policies that will affect their lives.

This can be achieved through the participative budget whenever it is inside a process of citizen mobilization and social transformations.

The risk of participative budget consist in, one more time, the capital misappropiates the concept of participative democracy to use in its own benefit in detriment to the majority of the population.