Dr. Brian Wampler is a professor in the Department of Political Science at Boise State University where he has taught since earning his Ph.D. at the University of Texas, Austin in 2001. Dr. Wampler was named a Fulbright Scholar by the U.S. State Department and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, and spent the the 2009-2010 academic year conducting research, teaching and lecturing at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Dr. Wampler's main area of research focuses on participatory institutions at the subnational level in Brazil and Latin America. He has multiple scholarly and policy publications on this topic, including a book published by Penn State Press. A secondary area of research involves the behaviors and attitudes of Mexican migrants to Idaho. Wampler teaches courses within the International Relations subfield, including Comparative Politics, Latin American Politics, the Politics of Developing Nations, Latin American Politics Through Film, and American National Government. Dr. Wampler is also the advisor to the local chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha, a national honorary association for political science students.
Articles
Participatory Budgeting: Core Principles and Key Impacts, Journal of Public Deliberation (2012)
This essay is a reflection piece. I identify key principles at the core of how...
Participatory Budgeting: Diffusion and Outcomes Across the World (with Janette Hartz-Karp), Journal of Public Deliberation (2012)
In this special issue of the Journal of Public Deliberation, multiple faces of Participatory Budgeting...
Participation, Representation, and Social Justice: Using Participatory Governance to Transform Representative Democracy, Polity (2012)
The direct incorporation of citizens into complex policymaking processes is the most significant innovation of...
Entering the State: Civil Society Activism and Participatory Governance in Brazil, Political Studies (2012)
Participatory governance programs, which institutionalize government–civil society interactions through the promotion of public deliberation and...
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Explaining Why Most Mexican Immigrants are Choosing to Remain Permanently in the United States (with Maria Chávez and Francisco I. Pedraza), Latino Studies (2010)
This paper analyzes why some Mexican immigrants, especially undocumented residents, plan to remain permanently in...
Books
Participatory Budgeting in Brazil: Contestation, Cooperation, and Accountability, Faculty Authored Books (2007)
As Brazil and other countries in Latin America turned away from their authoritarian past and...
Contributions to Books
Expanding Accountability through Participatory Institutions: Mayors, Citizens, and Budgeting in Three Brazilian Municipalities, New Perspectives on Democracy in Latin America: Actors, Institutions and Practices (2009)
Participative Institutions in Brazil: Mayors and the Expansion of Accountability in Comparative Perspective, Widening Democracy: Citizens and Participatory Schemes in Brazil and Chile (2009)
A Guide to Participatory Budgeting, Participatory Budgeting (2007)
This book presents an authoritative guide to the principles and practices of participatory budgeting (PB)....
Presentations
Lecture: Regenerating Democracy in Brazil: Popular Participation, Interlocking Institutions, and Social Justice, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas at Austin (2013)
Citizens and government officials in Brazil are developing a multi-level, integrated participatory system that addresses...