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New OECD/World Bank paper with PB case studies

The OECD / World Bank paper "Beyond Public Scrutiny: a stocktaking of social accountability initiatives in OECD countries" profiles 40 government accountability programs, including interesting examples of participatory budgeting in Belgium, Germany, Portugal, Spain, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the UK.
http://www.zebralog.net/open/BeyondPublicScrutinycoverandtext.pdf

PB in Germany

There is a nice new website on PB in Germany: http://www.buergerhaushalt.de