The Student Government at the University of Washington, the
Associated Students of the University of Washington, created the
Student Senate in 1994. The goal was to have a diverse
legislative body to give the Executive body, the Board of
Control, advice on issues important to students, prioritize
concerns, and offer solutions. 75 per cent of residential
development in Auckland over the next thirty years (to
accommodate an extra one million people) will be within the
metropolitan urban limits. This is the main reason the Auckland
Council decided to start the “Auckland Plan” through a
participation process that could find solutions to this problem
and turn Auckland into the world’s most liveable city by 2040.
Participatory Budgeting (PB) is a process implemented in the
1990s where residents of certain regions can influence how their
governments' annual budgets are allocated. After the collapse of
its authoritarian regime in the mid 1980s, Brazilians
implemented reforms to bolster their economic and political fu