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Coordinating Monetary Contributions in Participatory Budgeting

open access: yesAutonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, 2023
Abstract We formalize a framework for coordinating funding and selecting projects, the costs of which are shared among agents with quasi-linear utility functions and individual budgets. Our model contains the discrete participatory budgeting model as a special case, while capturing other useful scenarios.
Aziz, Haris   +4 more
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Submodular participatory budgeting

open access: yesTheoretical Computer Science
Participatory budgeting refers to the practice of allocating public resources by collecting and aggregating individual preferences. Most existing studies in this field often assume an additive utility function, where each individual holds a private utility for each candidate project, and the total utility of a set of funded projects is simply the sum ...
Jing Yuan, Shaojie Tang
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Models of Participatory Budgeting. Analysis of Participatory Budgeting Procedures in Poland

open access: yesPolish Sociological Review, 2021
This paper presents a study on participatory budgeting in Poland, analyzing participatory budgeting procedures. We apply the typology of participation models proposed by Sintomer, and based on the previous research we investigate which model of participatory budgeting is characteristic for Poland.
Mączka, Krzysztof   +4 more
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E-Participatory Budgeting as an Innovative Approach

open access: yesMaliye Çalışmaları Dergisi
This study examines the development of participatory budgeting and its enhanced version, e-participatory budgeting, which incorporates digital tools. Participatory budgeting was first implemented in 1989 in the city of Porto Alegre, Brazil.
Yücel Demirkılıç   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Participatory Budgeting as a Tool of Development Policy of Small Towns – Analysis of Towns in Śląsk and Łódź Voivodeships [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Participatory budgeting is becoming an increasingly important tool of development policy of Polish towns and cities. It is part of the public debate on the role of the residents in local development and building of social capital in local self-government
Rzeńca, Agnieszka, Sobol, Agnieszka
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How “alternative” alternative urban policies really are?

open access: yesMétropoles, 2014
In recent years, participatory budgeting has been often regarded as an example of an alternative urban policy experience, detached from the entrepreneurial mainstream.
Wojciech Kębłowski   +1 more
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How Context Matters: Challenges of Localizing Participatory Budgeting for Climate Change Adaptation in Vienna

open access: yesUrban Planning, 2023
Participatory budgeting originally aimed to promote greater political representation and resource distribution for vulnerable populations. As it globally circulates, however, existing literature points out that its local interpretations and ...
Byeongsun Ahn   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Core of the Participatory Budgeting Problem

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
DK Foley   +12 more
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Participatory Budgeting with Multiple Resources

open access: yes, 2022
We put forward a formal model of participatory budgeting where projects can incur costs with respect to several different resources, such as money, energy, or emission allowances. We generalise several well-known mechanisms from the usual single-resource setting to this multi-resource setting and analyse their algorithmic efficiency, the extent to ...
Motamed, N.   +3 more
openaire   +5 more sources

The Development of Participatory Budgeting Processes in Cluj-Napoca

open access: yesTransylvanian Review of Administrative Sciences, 2019
Participatory budgeting is an instrument used everywhere in the world today to develop communities and democracy in order to increase the accountability and capacity of the public administration.
Emil Boc
doaj   +1 more source

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