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Citizens and the city: the case for participatory budgeting in the City of Zagreb

open access: yesPublic Sector Economics, 2019
Since there is constant concern that local government heads allocate budget resources in favour of various pressure groups, the paper investigates whether local participatory budgeting can be implemented in order to better align budget allocation with ...
Sandra Svaljek   +2 more
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The Core of the Participatory Budgeting Problem [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In participatory budgeting, communities collectively decide on the allocation of public tax dollars for local public projects. In this work, we consider the question of fairly aggregating the preferences of community members to determine an allocation of funds to projects.
Brandon Fain   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Civil Society Representation in the Participatory Budget and Deliberative Councils of São Paulo, Brazil

open access: yes, 2004
We examine the differential capacity of civil society organisations to represent the poor in institutional spaces for citizen participation in the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
A. Acharya, A. G. Lavalle, P. Houtzager
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Implementation of an Integrated Approach in Budget Planning for Resource Optimization in Organization

open access: yesManagement Analysis Journal
This study aims to explore the application of an integrated approach in budget planning to optimize educational resources in the Muadalah Wustho Blokagung Banyuwangi Education Unit. With this approach, the research seeks to improve the efficiency of fund
Galuh Prabowo   +1 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

How Advanced Is Green Participatory Budgeting in Poland and Spain? A Case Study of Gdansk and Barcelona

open access: yesJournal of Environmental Management and Tourism
This study explores the advancements in Green Participatory Budgeting (GPB) in Poland and Spain, focusing on case studies from Gdansk and Barcelona. GPB integrates participatory budgeting with environmental sustainability, enabling citizens to influence ...
Małgorzata SIEMIONEK-RUSKAŃ   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Brief Reflection on the Brazilian Participatory Experience

open access: yesJournal of Deliberative Democracy, 2014
The article highlights Brazilian participatory experiences such as the participatory budget and the policy councils and conferences. Based on research done by the author on daily routines and policy impacts of these forums, it is argued that there is ...
Vera Schattan Coelho
doaj   +2 more sources

Orçamentos Participativos e o recurso a tecnologias de informação e comunicação: Uma relação virtuosa?

open access: yesRevista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 2010
This text discusses whether the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Participatory Budgeting processes can promote more engaged forms of citizenship and democracy.
Eleonora Schettini M. Cunha   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Beyond Figures and Numbers Participatory Budgeting as a Leverage for Citizen Identity and Attachment to Place

open access: yesInternational Studies: Interdisciplinary Political and Cultural Journal, 2019
The purpose of the paper is to examine the potential of participatory budgeting (PB) for the formation of citizen identity and attachment to the place in terms of individual, territorial and thematic focus.
Justyna Anders-Morawska   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Os Orçamentos Participativos em Itália: Uma ‘ponte’ para a construção do Novo Município

open access: yesRevista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 2007
The geography of Participatory Budget (PB) experiences in Italy is a rapidly mutating one, against a backdrop which is beginning to find a “hard nucleus” of political innovation in the current treatment of economic-financial themes.
Giovanni Allegretti, Massimo Allulli
doaj   +1 more source

Institutional Analysis Model for Examining Direct Democracy Phenomena: a Case Study of Participatory Budgeting

open access: yesActa Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Oeconomica, 2019
Direct democracy, the tradition of which dates back to ancient Athens, is now widely practised in many countries around the world. In this paper, a case study of participatory budgeting is given as an illustration of how residents can decide directly ...
Zofia Łapniewska
doaj   +1 more source

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