Popular participation and digital democracy: the experience of participative budget of the town hall of Braga (Portugal)

Abstract

The current study intends to analyze the portal of the Participative Budget of the Town Hall of Braga (Portugal), aiming at verifying whether the referred site is an instrument capable of enhancing a new way of manifestation of democracy, exercised in the digital environment and based upon interactivity. The elaboration of this study is based in bibliographic research and case study of the referred portal, confronting the theory and the instruments of participative management developed at the Town Hall of Braga.