Abstract: Until recently, gender-responsive budgeting remained the only budgeting system that dealt with equity within a specific demographic. More recently, studies focused on the context of the United States have started to analyze if and how racial and broader social equity considerations can become a standard fixture of resource allocation decisions. These studies provide evidence of how proactive governments are taking the initiative, and they explore– conceptually and empirically– opportunities for equity analysis in public budgeting. This nascent literature has not yet produced any comparative work nor delved into the factors that may be linked to introducing equity considerations into budgetary processes. This project fills that gap by comparing social equity's role in budget preparation in 24 counties and their equivalents in the State of Maryland. This project analyzes the role of budgetary transparency, the strength of budgetary institutions, and the political and economic contexts that are determinants of the role of social equity. This comparative analysis employs the fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) methodology, allowing for the exploration of various configurations of causal conditions.
Speakers: Juan Pablo Martínez Guzmán, Laura K. Fairman, John C. Ronquillo
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